{"id":253694,"date":"2025-07-10T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253694\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:29:13","slug":"speeding-car-crashes-in-glasgow-city-centre-smashing-into-vehicles-and-terrifying-passers-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253694\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Speeding&#8217; car crashes in Glasgow city centre smashing into vehicles and terrifying passers-by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and ambulance crews were called to High Street, near McChuills bar, after the alarm was raised shortly after lunchtime on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>13:44, 10 Jul 2025Updated 14:12, 10 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"JWPlayer_poster-image___jQGK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752157751_64_poster.jpg\" alt=\"videoHeadline\"\/>Police attend crash scene on High Street in Glasgow<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three people have been taken to hospital and four others injured after a major crash in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Glasgow city centreLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow city centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PoliceLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> and ambulance crews were called to High Street, near McChuills bar, as the alarm was raised at around 12.45pm on Thursday. Pictures taken from the scene show the large <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"emergency presenceLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency presence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"OfficersLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers<\/a> and medics can be seen in attendance while terrified passers-by watch on. According to an eyewitness a car was &#8220;speeding&#8221; down Bell Street before it collided with a taxi and other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The occupants of a black Ford Fiesta, which was involved in the collison, were seen being led into an ambulance while police stood guard outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three people have been rushed to hospital for treatment, with their conditions currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_1000044168.jpg\" alt=\"A black Ford Fiesta was involved in the crash\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A black Ford Fiesta was involved in the crash(Image: Bev Lyons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Four people were also treated at the scene and it&#8217;s understood a car narrowly avoided hitting a woman with a pram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The eyewitness said: &#8220;Three police cars, three ambulances, an unmarked cop car and a police van are at the corner of high street and Bell Street. A car was speeding down Bell Street before it hurtled onto High Street and spun, hitting a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/transport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"taxiLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">taxi<\/a> and colliding with other cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A black Ford Fiesta was up on pavement and a black taxi has hit a white car that was parked on pavement. A woman pushing a pram as she walked by narrowly avoided being hit and looked badly shaken. Three men, understood to be in the vehicles, were seen being led into an ambulance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_1000044172.jpg\" alt=\"Police stand guard outside an ambulance\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police stand guard outside an ambulance(Image: Bev Lyons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The road has been closed off while mercy crews deal with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: &#8220;We received a call at 12:45 to attend a two-car road traffic collision on High Street, Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We dispatched two ambulances, a paramedic response unit (PRU), and a critical care paramedic (CCP) to the scene. We transported three patients to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police ScotlandLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> was also asked for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and ambulance crews were called to High Street, near McChuills bar, after the alarm was raised shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,2605,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829418113637611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}