B786 crash in Inverclyde on 11 December 1993 at 11:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B786 in Inverclyde at 11:30 on Saturday 11 December 1993. A 14-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1993
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85724, longitude -4.62974, in the PA11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397XA01912
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1992.
Slight
Car crash on the B786 in Inverclyde, 28 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199297XA02306
Slight
Car crash on the B786 in Inverclyde, 20 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198197XA03703
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B786 in Renfrewshire, 13 January 2015
11 m awayRef 201597KB02401
Serious
Honda CBR900RR crash on the B786 in Inverclyde, 8 May 2008
99 m awayRef 200897KC01205
Slight
Car crash on the B768 in Inverclyde, 19 September 1981
100 m awayRef 198197XA04109
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1002 crash on the B786 in Inverclyde, 2 August 2025
175 m awayRef 2025991624095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,766 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199397XA01912 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 1993.