A814 crash in Glasgow City on 21 December 2014 at 21:20 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van crashed on the A814 in Glasgow City at 21:20 on Sunday 21 December 2014. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8603, longitude -4.27555, in the G3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Govan, Glasgow City, G51 1HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497AC70412
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 814
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2010.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 14 February 2010
2 m awayRef 201097AC01802
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 19 January 2017
9 m awayRef 201797GU07701
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the M8 in Glasgow City, 18 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025991579588
Serious
Renault Kangoo crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 12 August 2021
11 m awayRef 2021991076444
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 3 July 2000
12 m awayRef 200097AC01007
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 3 March 2017
16 m awayRef 201797GU00403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Trafic)
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 201497AC70412 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.