B759 crash in Glasgow City on 26 January 2012 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B759 in Glasgow City at 15:50 on Thursday 26 January 2012. A 29-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus and the 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2012
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79195, longitude -4.22431, in the G76 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297GD01801
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 759
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1999.
Slight
Toyota Camry crash on the B759 in South Lanarkshire, 1 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199997QA00212
Serious
Car crash on the B759 in Glasgow City, 26 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200697GD05611
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 1 August 2002
22 m awayRef 200297QA05808
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B759 in South Lanarkshire, 18 February 2010
22 m awayRef 201097QA03502
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the B759 in South Lanarkshire, 22 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200297GD04804
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B759 in Glasgow City, 28 July 2003
28 m awayRef 200397GD05307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201297GD01801 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.