A879 crash in Glasgow City on 10 February 2015 at 06:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A879 in Glasgow City at 06:30 on Tuesday 10 February 2015. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90076, longitude -4.26866, in the G23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597BE00502
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 879
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2000.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 30 May 2000
4 m awayRef 200097CB02205
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 22 February 2012
23 m awayRef 201297BE01802
Serious
MG TF crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 4 March 2010
23 m awayRef 201097BE70103
Fatal
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 20 April 2017
41 m awayRef 201797GF70304
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 17 December 2022
50 m awayRef 2022991254802
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A879 in Glasgow City, 16 February 1994
62 m awayRef 199497CA02802
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201597BE00502 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 2015.