C road crash in East Renfrewshire G78 on 17 May 2003 at 00:30 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara hit a pedestrian on a C road in East Renfrewshire at 00:30 on Saturday 17 May 2003. A 46-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2003
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7747, longitude -4.46395, in the G78 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397GC43005
- Council area
- East Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 19 September 2018
61 m awayRef 201897GC00409
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 24 January 1996
139 m awayRef 199697KB21101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 21 October 1986
198 m awayRef 198697KA22910
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in East Renfrewshire, 19 April 2008
222 m awayRef 200897GC02004
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the A736 in East Renfrewshire, 8 August 1993
227 m awayRef 199397KB20608
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 13 September 1981
260 m awayRef 198197KA30909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200397GC43005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Renfrewshire road accident statistics for 2003.