A877 crash in Renfrewshire on 20 July 2017 at 08:31 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Smart Fortwo were involved in a crash on the A877 in Renfrewshire at 08:31 on Thursday 20 July 2017. The 42-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2017
- Thursday, 08:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Smart Fortwo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87694, longitude -4.38317, in the PA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Renfrew. It is one of the crashes that make up the Renfrew North and Braehead, Renfrewshire, PA4 0TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797KB01307
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 877
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 2010.
Serious
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 18 August 2010
9 m awayRef 201097KB41908
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 3 December 2010
23 m awayRef 201097KB40412
Slight
Hyundai i40 crash on the A877 in Renfrewshire, 14 February 2015
29 m awayRef 201597KB02002
Slight
Car crash on the A877 in Renfrewshire, 24 November 1989
33 m awayRef 198997KB63911
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 22 May 2006
67 m awayRef 200697KB43405
Fatal
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 10 January 2016
106 m awayRef 201697KB01601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201797KB01307 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.