Serious A726 crash in Renfrewshire on 5 September 2018 at 07:20 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Vivaro van were involved in a crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire at 07:20 on Wednesday 5 September 2018. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Sep 2018
- Wednesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87891, longitude -4.45366, in the PA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Erskine. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erskine and Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, PA4 9RR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897KB01209
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1995.
Slight
Dodge crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 11 January 1995
7 m awayRef 199597KC01201
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 9 February 1998
7 m awayRef 199897KC01302
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 7 February 1994
7 m awayRef 199497KC60902
Slight
Lorry crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 6 March 1985
7 m awayRef 198597KB60703
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 22 December 1994
7 m awayRef 199497KC64612
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A726 in Renfrewshire, 2 November 1993
7 m awayRef 199397KC60311
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201897KB01209 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.