A761 crash in Renfrewshire on 13 March 2018 at 18:10 involving a Honda Civic
Four vehicles, including a Honda Civic and a Vauxhall Astra, were involved in a crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire at 18:10 on Tuesday 13 March 2018. The 37-year-old female driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 2018
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Honda Civic and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84528, longitude -4.47901, in the PA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paisley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Johnstone South and Elderslie, Renfrewshire, PA1 2FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897KB00503
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2000.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 9 July 2000
9 m awayRef 200097KB01407
Slight
Car crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 27 January 1992
27 m awayRef 199297KB45901
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 22 May 1999
27 m awayRef 199997KA04705
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 9 June 1993
27 m awayRef 199397KB41606
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 5 May 1999
27 m awayRef 199997KB00605
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 22 January 1994
27 m awayRef 199497KB44001
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201897KB00503 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 2018.