A77 crash in Glasgow City on 15 August 2015 at 19:50 involving a Mercedes A Class
A car and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A77 in Glasgow City at 19:50 on Saturday 15 August 2015. A 21-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2015
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83151, longitude -4.27884, in the G41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langside, Glasgow City, G41 3AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597GD01708
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 77
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2015.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 23 March 2015
3 m awayRef 201597GD03103
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 13 January 1999
4 m awayRef 199997FB02001
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 3 August 2007
4 m awayRef 200797GE01308
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 22 June 2004
4 m awayRef 200497GD04706
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 2 April 2006
4 m awayRef 200697GE00204
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 7 January 2007
4 m awayRef 200797GD00901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201597GD01708 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.