Unclassified road crash in Inverclyde PA15 on 10 August 2010 at 13:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde at 13:30 on Tuesday 10 August 2010. A 51-year-old male passenger in the Mazda 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94672, longitude -4.75342, in the PA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverclyde Central, Inverclyde, PA15 4QP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097KC01508
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 August 2024.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201097KC01508 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 2010.