{"id":649717,"date":"2025-12-23T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649717\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:04:20","slug":"pensioner-dies-in-hospital-after-being-hit-by-motorbike-on-busy-glasgow-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649717\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner dies in hospital after being hit by motorbike on busy Glasgow road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 74-year-old pedestrian was rushed to hospital after the crash but sadly died nine days later.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_pollokshaws-road.png\" alt=\"Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow at its junction with Queen Square(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A pensioner has died <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/pedestrian-motorcyclist-taken-hospital-after-36396038\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"after a horror motorbike crash on a busy Glasgow streetLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">after a horror motorbike crash on a busy Glasgow street<\/a>. The elderly woman passed away following the smash on Pollokshaws Road in the south side of the city on Friday, December 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"incident Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">incident <\/a>happened around 7.45pm and involved the 74-year-old woman, who was walking along the road at the time, and a Triumph Bonneville motorbike on the A77 Pollokshaws Road at the junction with Queen Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services raced to the scene and both the pedestrian and the 52-year-old male rider were taken to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/see-scotlands-super-flu-hotspots-36409236\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Queen Elizabeth University HospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Queen Elizabeth University Hospital<\/a> for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The woman sadly could not survive her injuries and died in hospital nine days later, on Sunday, December 21. Her <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/lifestyle\/family-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"familyLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">family<\/a> has been informed and has asked for privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The road was closed to allow enquiries to be carried out and re-opened around 12.30am on Saturday, December 13. Police Scotland say their thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The force is now asking anyone who saw the event unfold and hasn&#8217;t already spoken to cops to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sergeant Jack Swindells said: &#8220;Our enquiries remain ongoing to establish the full circumstances and I am appealing to anyone who witnessed the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/car-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"crash Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">crash <\/a>and hasn\u2019t already spoken to officers to contact us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I would also ask anyone who was in the area and may have dash cam or private <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"CCTV Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">CCTV <\/a>which could assist to review this and contact us with anything relevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone with any information is asked to contact 101 quoting reference 3395 of December 12, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 74-year-old pedestrian was rushed to hospital after the crash but sadly died nine days later.Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649718,"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-649717","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\/115767140462359564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649717","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=649717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}