Unclassified road crash in Renfrewshire PA10 on 24 September 1979 at 11:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire at 11:05 on Monday 24 September 1979. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1979
- Monday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82582, longitude -4.61963, in the PA10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197997RA08409
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 November 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A77 in Renfrewshire, 24 November 1979
50 m awayRef 197997RA09611
Slight
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276 m awayRef 2021991040571
Slight
Car crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 9 December 2006
391 m awayRef 200697KB01312
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 23 November 2017
402 m awayRef 201797KB02211
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 4 September 2025
570 m awayRef 2025991637547
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in Renfrewshire, 8 July 1979
590 m awayRef 197997RA02207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 197997RA08409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Renfrewshire road accident statistics for 1979.