A761 crash in Inverclyde on 15 February 1989 at 13:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A761 in Inverclyde at 13:10 on Wednesday 15 February 1989. The 50-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1989
- Wednesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88261, longitude -4.62026, in the PA13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198997XA02702
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 788
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 97 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2018.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 17 March 2018
97 m awayRef 201897KC00503
Serious
Car crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 3 March 1981
100 m awayRef 198197XA00503
Serious
Car crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 20 February 1989
100 m awayRef 198997XA04402
Slight
Minibus crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 21 December 1988
100 m awayRef 198897XA04712
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 8 September 1986
100 m awayRef 198697XA01709
Slight
Lorry crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 5 December 1984
100 m awayRef 198497XA01212
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, 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 198997XA02702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Inverclyde road accident statistics for 1989.