Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G2 on 27 February 2017 at 20:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 20:00 on Monday 27 February 2017. The 49-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2017
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86231, longitude -4.26435, in the G2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Anderston/City/Yorkhill, Glasgow City, G2 6RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797GP01802
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2017.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 22 February 2017
2 m awayRef 201797GP01402
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 12 June 2014
2 m awayRef 201497AC00506
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 24 September 2025
2 m awayRef 2025991646106
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 16 December 2016
3 m awayRef 201697GP00912
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 5 December 2023
3 m awayRef 2023991383123
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 15 September 2017
4 m awayRef 201797GP01809
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 201797GP01802 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 2017.