A737 crash in Renfrewshire on 12 May 2018 at 11:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire at 11:00 on Saturday 12 May 2018. The 57-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and an 86-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2018
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79489, longitude -4.59802, in the PA9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897KB70205
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 737
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 28 February 2000
11 m awayRef 200097KB70902
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 20 September 2001
27 m awayRef 200197KB01309
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 20 November 2009
64 m awayRef 200997KB01911
Slight
Volvo crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 6 January 2003
106 m awayRef 200397KB00401
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 25 October 2006
114 m awayRef 200697KB03810
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 26 August 2015
125 m awayRef 201597KB03708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201897KB70205 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.