B789 crash in Renfrewshire on 26 January 2000 at 19:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Hyundai Accent were involved in a crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire at 19:00 on Wednesday 26 January 2000. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra and the 17-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2000
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Hyundai Accent
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85776, longitude -4.53872, in the PA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097KB03201
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 789
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2016.
Slight
Triumph Speed Triple 1050 crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 8 September 2016
9 m awayRef 201697KB00709
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 17 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201597KB02509
Fatal
Car crash on the A789 in Renfrewshire, 9 January 2012
22 m awayRef 201297KB70101
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 24 June 2004
22 m awayRef 200497KB02206
Serious
Car crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 6 November 1985
40 m awayRef 198597KB40711
Serious
Leyland crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 18 September 1991
40 m awayRef 199197KB43009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 200097KB03201 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.