B786 crash in Renfrewshire on 21 February 1986 at 07:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire at 07:20 on Friday 21 February 1986. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1986
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83032, longitude -4.62792, 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
- 198697KB45202
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 786
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2013.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 29 October 2013
47 m awayRef 201397KB42910
Slight
Van crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 26 November 2013
75 m awayRef 201397KB03111
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 16 April 2014
94 m awayRef 201497KB01704
Serious
Honda ST1100M crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 4 April 1993
100 m awayRef 199397KB40904
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 4 September 2025
172 m awayRef 2025991637547
Slight
Car crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 9 December 2006
446 m awayRef 200697KB01312
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198697KB45202 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 1986.