Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G4 on 5 July 2014 at 14:15 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 14:15 on Saturday 5 July 2014. The 42-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2014
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86299, longitude -4.23687, in the G4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Anderston/City/Yorkhill, Glasgow City, G1 1NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497AB00407
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 29 August 2014
1 m awayRef 201497AB03608
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 21 March 2013
1 m awayRef 201397AB02503
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A8 in Glasgow City, 4 April 2002
2 m awayRef 200297EA70304
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 6 August 2007
2 m awayRef 200797EA01308
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A8 in Glasgow City, 28 March 2001
2 m awayRef 200197AB04903
Slight
Bus crash on the A8 in Glasgow City, 7 May 2003
2 m awayRef 200397EA03405
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
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 201497AB00407 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 2014.