Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G3 on 24 December 2013 at 18:15 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 18:15 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86884, longitude -4.27349, in the G3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hillhead, Glasgow City, G3 6JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397AD02812
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2018.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 26 October 2018
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 21 August 2014
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Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 24 October 2000
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 10 May 2006
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 17 October 2006
17 m awayRef 200697AC01810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 201397AD02812 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 2013.