Unclassified road crash in Inverclyde PA19 on 6 December 2014 at 15:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde at 15:30 on Saturday 6 December 2014. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95853, longitude -4.81782, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497KC02512
- 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
- Other junction
- 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 unlit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 August 2019.
Serious
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5 m awayRef 2019970872614
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 12 December 2005
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Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 13 December 2003
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 5 July 1994
27 m awayRef 199497XB01307
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 16 June 1996
27 m awayRef 199697XB01806
Slight
Lorry crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 4 January 1985
27 m awayRef 198597XB01101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201497KC02512 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 2014.