A726 crash in Renfrewshire on 9 September 2000 at 00:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A726 in Renfrewshire at 00:30 on Saturday 9 September 2000. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2000
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86332, longitude -4.45549, in the PA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097KB40709
- 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
- Single 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2014.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 27 February 2014
28 m awayRef 201497KB05002
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 15 April 2003
45 m awayRef 200397KB70504
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 16 May 2011
54 m awayRef 201197KB41705
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 13 July 2007
67 m awayRef 200797KB43707
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 4 November 2022
72 m awayRef 2022991240002
Slight
Car crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 21 February 1998
76 m awayRef 199897KC01902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200097KB40709 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.