M8 crash in Glasgow City on 14 July 2011 at 12:30 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the M8 in Glasgow City at 12:30 on Thursday 14 July 2011. The 49-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85627, longitude -4.27032, in the G3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Govan, Glasgow City, G51 1HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197AC70307
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 8
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 14 March 2013
11 m awayRef 201397AC70403
Slight
Car crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 16 August 1986
14 m awayRef 198697AC03908
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 14 January 2011
14 m awayRef 201197AB01501
Slight
Car crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 8 May 1983
14 m awayRef 198397AC01905
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 13 March 1998
14 m awayRef 199897AC01903
Slight
Car crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 1 August 1981
14 m awayRef 198197AC00208
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 201197AC70307 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 2011.