A761 crash in Inverclyde on 12 June 2015 at 10:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mercedes Sprinter were involved in a crash on the A761 in Inverclyde at 10:45 on Friday 12 June 2015. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2015
- Friday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88733, longitude -4.6212, in the PA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilmacolm.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597KC01706
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2002.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 5 November 2002
3 m awayRef 200297KC01211
Serious
Car crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 18 July 1982
47 m awayRef 198297XA02207
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 8 February 1992
47 m awayRef 199297XA01202
Serious
Car crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 8 May 1982
47 m awayRef 198297XA00905
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 28 January 1998
67 m awayRef 199897XA02101
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 25 November 1990
67 m awayRef 199097XA02811
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 201597KC01706 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 2015.