Unclassified road crash in Inverclyde PA11 on 22 May 1996 at 09:50 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde at 09:50 on Wednesday 22 May 1996. A 28-year-old female passenger in the taxi and a 28-year-old female passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 1996
- Wednesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86559, longitude -4.61751, in the PA11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199697XA70205
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2000.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199697XA70205 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 1996.