A814 crash in Glasgow City on 8 February 2016 at 11:00 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on the A814 in Glasgow City at 11:00 on Monday 8 February 2016. An 8-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon and a 56-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86048, longitude -4.28104, 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
- 201697AC00402
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1999.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 4 February 1999
5 m awayRef 199997AC70102
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 2 February 2010
5 m awayRef 201097AC00102
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 15 January 2005
5 m awayRef 200597AC02201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 2 July 2015
6 m awayRef 201597AC00307
Serious
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 14 May 2023
8 m awayRef 2023991307215
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 15 October 2001
11 m awayRef 200197AC70410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 201697AC00402 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 2016.