Serious B766 crash in Glasgow City on 8 October 2015 at 16:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B766 in Glasgow City at 16:35 on Thursday 8 October 2015. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.824, longitude -4.25817, in the G42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langside, Glasgow City, G44 4RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597GD01110
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 766
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 2003.
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the B766 in Glasgow City, 12 January 2003
1 m awayRef 200397GD02201
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 16 August 2009
1 m awayRef 200997GD01108
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 17 November 2006
1 m awayRef 200697GD03711
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B766 in Glasgow City, 20 May 2005
1 m awayRef 200597GD02905
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B766 in Glasgow City, 14 October 2014
9 m awayRef 201497GD01110
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B766 in Glasgow City, 24 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200097FB05010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201597GD01110 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.