Serious A879 crash in Glasgow City on 27 October 2007 at 01:00 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 hit a pedestrian on the A879 in Glasgow City at 01:00 on Saturday 27 October 2007. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8933, longitude -4.26033, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797BE00310
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 24 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200697CB01503
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 17 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200397CB01209
Serious
Renault Twingo crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 19 August 2021
16 m awayRef 2021991078969
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 21 June 2019
16 m awayRef 201997GF00806
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 9 August 2015
18 m awayRef 201597BE01408
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 6 December 2007
20 m awayRef 200797BE00812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200797BE00310 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 2007.