C road crash in East Renfrewshire G77 on 11 December 2006 at 17:30 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on a C road in East Renfrewshire at 17:30 on Monday 11 December 2006. The 36-year-old male driver of the Skoda Octavia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2006
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76582, longitude -4.32501, in the G77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton Mearns.
Map of where the crash happened in East Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697GC02612
- Council area
- East Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2003.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 18 October 2003
42 m awayRef 200397GC70310
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 27 July 1985
92 m awayRef 198597GC45707
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 15 August 1995
92 m awayRef 199597GC70308
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in East Renfrewshire, 19 May 1987
92 m awayRef 198797GC42205
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on a C road in East Renfrewshire, 17 December 1998
92 m awayRef 199897GC43512
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Renfrewshire, 20 October 1986
92 m awayRef 198697GC43110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
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 200697GC02612 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 2006.