A728 crash in Renfrewshire on 27 November 2017 at 07:20 involving a Vauxhall Insignia taxi
A Vauxhall Insignia taxi and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A728 in Renfrewshire at 07:20 on Monday 27 November 2017. The 39-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2017
- Monday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86262, longitude -4.43633, in the PA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paisley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paisley Northwest, Renfrewshire, PA3 2LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797KB02411
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 728
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 23 May 2007
7 m awayRef 200797KB43505
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the M8 in Renfrewshire, 19 July 2001
7 m awayRef 200197KB42107
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 30 June 1999
50 m awayRef 199997KB42806
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 29 March 2013
58 m awayRef 201397KB02603
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 15 July 1985
61 m awayRef 198597KB61607
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B789 in Renfrewshire, 13 September 1988
61 m awayRef 198897KB42609
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 201797KB02411 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.