A81 crash in Glasgow City on 20 October 2004 at 09:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A81 in Glasgow City at 09:55 on Wednesday 20 October 2004. An 84-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2004
- Wednesday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89095, longitude -4.29042, in the G20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maryhill, Glasgow City, G20 9TA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497CA03010
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2010.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 9 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201097BE01109
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 17 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200097CA02812
Serious
Electric motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 29 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025991656116
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 17 July 2015
7 m awayRef 201597BE01207
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 5 June 2020
7 m awayRef 2020990955721
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 19 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199997CA04612
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200497CA03010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Glasgow City road accident statistics for 2004.