Serious unclassified road crash in Renfrewshire PA1 on 8 December 1983 at 17:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire at 17:35 on Thursday 8 December 1983. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 1983
- Thursday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85095, longitude -4.41042, in the PA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397KC81612
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 19 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198897KC83910
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 15 July 1992
100 m awayRef 199297KA03207
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 21 January 1995
100 m awayRef 199597KA04401
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 12 June 1983
141 m awayRef 198397KA05006
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 16 May 1981
141 m awayRef 198197KA07105
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 22 February 1984
141 m awayRef 198497KC83602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, 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 198397KC81612 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 1983.