A879 crash in Glasgow City on 5 June 2007 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A879 in Glasgow City at 17:15 on Tuesday 5 June 2007. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2007
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88074, longitude -4.25449, 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 5PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797CB00306
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 16 January 2012
At the same spotRef 201297BE01301
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 15 September 2018
9 m awayRef 201897GF00709
Serious
Volvo crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 11 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200897BE01009
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 28 November 2008
10 m awayRef 200897BE03711
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 29 November 2025
11 m awayRef 2025991675647
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 3 March 2015
12 m awayRef 201597BE00203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200797CB00306 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.