A879 crash in Glasgow City on 18 December 2004 at 19:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A879 in Glasgow City at 19:30 on Saturday 18 December 2004. The 43-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88742, longitude -4.25775, in the G22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canal, Glasgow City, G22 6LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497CB01212
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 879
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 29 September 2016
12 m awayRef 201697BE03009
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 9 February 2010
28 m awayRef 201097BE00702
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 26 September 2014
29 m awayRef 201497BE02409
Slight
Car crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 8 August 1983
32 m awayRef 198397CB00908
Slight
Car crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 6 June 1983
32 m awayRef 198397CB00806
Slight
Car crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 29 April 1989
32 m awayRef 198997CB04004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200497CB01212 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.