Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G20 on 30 July 2025 at 15:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 15:00 on Wednesday 30 July 2025. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88483, longitude -4.28249, in the G20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maryhill, Glasgow City, G20 9TA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991622650
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 30 April 1984
31 m awayRef 198497CA04904
Serious
Bus crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 14 March 1984
31 m awayRef 198497CA02303
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 26 January 1989
31 m awayRef 198997CA04201
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 29 August 1990
31 m awayRef 199097CA06808
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 5 May 1994
31 m awayRef 199497CA01205
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 4 November 1998
31 m awayRef 199897CA00611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2025991622650 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 2025.