A89 crash in Glasgow City on 1 January 2014 at 21:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A89 in Glasgow City at 21:40 on Wednesday 1 January 2014. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85072, longitude -4.15494, 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 0HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497BD00101
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 765
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2008.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 17 October 2008
3 m awayRef 200897BD01710
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 18 April 2000
3 m awayRef 200097EB02504
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 3 November 2008
3 m awayRef 200897BD00711
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the B765 in Glasgow City, 4 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991663340
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 10 May 2015
7 m awayRef 201597BD00805
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 29 May 2011
8 m awayRef 201197BD02505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201497BD00101 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.