Unclassified road crash in Inverclyde PA19 on 13 December 2003 at 19:35 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde at 19:35 on Saturday 13 December 2003. The 51-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xantia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2003
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Xantia and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95857, longitude -4.81771, in the PA19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gourock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverclyde West, Inverclyde, PA19 1RH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397KC02412
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2014.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 12 December 2005
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Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 29 August 2019
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 5 July 1994
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Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 16 June 1996
30 m awayRef 199697XB01806
Slight
Lorry crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 4 January 1985
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
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 200397KC02412 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 2003.