A761 crash in Inverclyde on 27 March 2017 at 17:15 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A761 in Inverclyde at 17:15 on Monday 27 March 2017. The 55-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2017
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89955, longitude -4.6373, in the PA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilmacolm.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797KC01303
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2009.
Slight
Subaru crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 9 October 2009
15 m awayRef 200997KC01710
Slight
Car crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 8 May 2016
17 m awayRef 201697KC01605
Slight
Scania crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 22 August 1994
26 m awayRef 199497XA03008
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 26 December 2013
89 m awayRef 201397KC03112
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 18 November 2020
97 m awayRef 2020990999854
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A761 in Inverclyde, 10 October 2019
102 m awayRef 2019970888157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 201797KC01303 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 2017.