Unclassified road crash in Inverclyde PA16 on 13 November 2016 at 00:01 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde at 00:01 on Sunday 13 November 2016. The 20-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2016
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89975, longitude -4.87415, in the PA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697KC03711
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 374 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Inverclyde, 6 August 2012
374 m awayRef 201297KC01608
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A78 in Inverclyde, 18 December 2008
474 m awayRef 200897KC05612
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A78 in Inverclyde, 3 July 1991
479 m awayRef 199197XB00107
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A78 in Inverclyde, 7 August 2006
481 m awayRef 200697KC01608
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A78 in Inverclyde, 15 October 2022
502 m awayRef 2022991230819
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in Inverclyde, 8 August 1982
507 m awayRef 198297XB01608
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201697KC03711 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 2016.