A726 crash in Renfrewshire on 20 January 2000 at 14:10 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and an Audi 100 were involved in a crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire at 14:10 on Thursday 20 January 2000. The 25-year-old female rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and Audi 100
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85547, longitude -4.4387, in the PA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paisley.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097KA02901
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2019.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 25 April 2019
6 m awayRef 201997KA00804
Slight
Car crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 15 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200197KA02602
Slight
Car crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 5 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200497KA00703
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 20 September 2013
14 m awayRef 201397KA02209
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 18 September 2022
17 m awayRef 2022991220530
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 20 May 2007
20 m awayRef 200797KA03805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Audi 100
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,309 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200097KA02901 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 2000.