A763 crash in Glasgow City on 6 September 2012 at 13:55 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A763 in Glasgow City at 13:55 on Thursday 6 September 2012. The 42-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo 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
- 6 Sep 2012
- Thursday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8318, longitude -4.16207, in the G32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shettleston, Glasgow City, G32 8ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297BD00509
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 763
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A763 in Glasgow City, 6 October 2014
7 m awayRef 201497BD00410
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A763 in Glasgow City, 9 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025991680231
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 30 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201097BD02808
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 22 August 2007
10 m awayRef 200797EB03308
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A763 in Glasgow City, 31 January 2014
10 m awayRef 201497BD70801
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A736 in Glasgow City, 26 March 2014
12 m awayRef 201497QD02703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201297BD00509 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 2012.