A761 crash in Inverclyde on 26 April 2001 at 11:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A761 in Inverclyde at 11:40 on Thursday 26 April 2001. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2001
- Thursday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92209, longitude -4.65498, in the PA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Port Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverclyde East, Inverclyde, PA14 5UD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197KX04404
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 1999.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 10 February 1999
10 m awayRef 199997XA70302
Slight
Lorry crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 8 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200497KC01201
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 8 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200597KC70109
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 12 January 1990
30 m awayRef 199097XA00901
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 11 June 1997
30 m awayRef 199797XA01406
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 20 December 1980
30 m awayRef 198097XA05512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200197KX04404 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 2001.