A770 crash in Inverclyde on 1 February 2006 at 00:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A770 in Inverclyde at 00:10 on Wednesday 1 February 2006. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2006
- Wednesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93429, longitude -4.88017, in the PA19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697KC70102
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 770
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 71%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 29%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 26 April 2008
10 m awayRef 200897KC05004
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 17 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200697KC03412
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 23 June 1988
14 m awayRef 198897XB04606
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 12 December 2010
14 m awayRef 201097KC01212
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 20 May 2012
14 m awayRef 201297KC03005
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 28 June 2007
81 m awayRef 200797KC06106
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200697KC70102 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 2006.