B775 crash in Renfrewshire on 9 April 2017 at 23:49 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the B775 in Renfrewshire at 23:49 on Sunday 9 April 2017. An 18-year-old female passenger and the 18-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 23:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79282, longitude -4.5002, in the G78 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797KB00804
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 775
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the B775 in Renfrewshire, 8 December 1999
23 m awayRef 199997KB00812
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B775 in Renfrewshire, 25 March 2023
32 m awayRef 2023991290499
Slight
Nissan 200 crash on the B775 in Renfrewshire, 28 May 2000
60 m awayRef 200097KB02805
Serious
Renault 11 crash on the B775 in East Renfrewshire, 18 November 1998
168 m awayRef 199897GC43311
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 31 August 1980
197 m awayRef 198097KB56108
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B775 in East Renfrewshire, 2 July 1990
392 m awayRef 199097KA20207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 201797KB00804 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.