Serious A89 crash in Glasgow City on 27 July 2012 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A89 in Glasgow City at 16:00 on Friday 27 July 2012. A 1-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 2012
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85164, longitude -4.16844, 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 7AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297BD02707
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 89
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2016.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 23 October 2016
7 m awayRef 201697BD02810
Slight
Volvo crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 8 September 2016
7 m awayRef 201697BD01209
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 24 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200397EB05412
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 30 April 2002
14 m awayRef 200297EB06004
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 23 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200597EB04112
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1104 in Glasgow City, 4 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025991663691
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 1, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201297BD02707 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.