Unclassified road crash in Renfrewshire PA3 on 11 November 1981 at 07:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire at 07:25 on Wednesday 11 November 1981. The 44-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 1981
- Wednesday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84827, longitude -4.45498, in the PA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paisley.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198197KA02011
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 15 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198397KC83512
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 7 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198797KC81103
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 7 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199997KA00907
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 2 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198197KA00709
Serious
Vauxhall Crossland crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 8 November 2025
49 m awayRef 2025991665461
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 14 August 2008
51 m awayRef 200897KA01708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198197KA02011 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 1981.