Serious A737 crash in Renfrewshire on 22 September 2019 at 06:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the A737 in Renfrewshire at 06:55 on Sunday 22 September 2019. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 2019
- Sunday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84796, longitude -4.48032, in the PA3 postcode district. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019970880101
- 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
- Slip road
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 16 June 2021
13 m awayRef 2021991056637
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A737 in Renfrewshire, 10 February 2009
20 m awayRef 200997KB01502
Slight
Van crash on the A740 in Renfrewshire, 22 January 1986
25 m awayRef 198697KB44701
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A740 in Renfrewshire, 25 October 1992
25 m awayRef 199297KB44910
Slight
Car crash on the A740 in Renfrewshire, 6 March 1981
25 m awayRef 198197KB51003
Serious
Car crash on the A740 in Renfrewshire, 16 December 1984
25 m awayRef 198497KB44912
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2019970880101 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 2019.