Serious B790 crash in Renfrewshire on 14 March 2017 at 22:00 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 crashed on the B790 in Renfrewshire at 22:00 on Tuesday 14 March 2017. The 26-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87452, longitude -4.49103, in the PA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797KB00803
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 790
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 18 February 2009
3 m awayRef 200997KB02602
Fatal
Kia Xceed crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 26 March 2022
8 m awayRef 2022991157851
Serious
Audi Q8 crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 14 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025991603075
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 4 August 2001
25 m awayRef 200197KB00608
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 26 November 2024
43 m awayRef 2024991521649
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B790 in Renfrewshire, 28 September 1995
113 m awayRef 199597KB43609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201797KB00803 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 2017.