A726 crash in Renfrewshire on 30 March 2010 at 17:15 involving a Proton Persona Compact
A taxi and a Proton Persona Compact were involved in a crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire at 17:15 on Tuesday 30 March 2010. The 32-year-old female driver of the Proton Persona Compact was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2010
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Proton Persona Compact
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8471, longitude -4.41645, in the PA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paisley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paisley East and Central, Renfrewshire, PA1 1UA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097KA05803
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 761
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2007.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 24 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200797KA03801
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 20 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199997KA05310
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 9 August 2017
13 m awayRef 201797KA01208
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 1 June 2006
14 m awayRef 200697KA00206
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 28 February 2000
22 m awayRef 200097KA05402
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 15 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200097KA03812
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Persona Compact
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Proton Persona Compact)
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 201097KA05803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Renfrewshire road accident statistics for 2010.