Unclassified road crash in Renfrewshire PA8 on 3 March 2020 at 14:20 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire at 14:20 on Tuesday 3 March 2020. A 46-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2020
- Tuesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.895, longitude -4.44947, in the PA8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erskine and Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, PA8 7HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990937617
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1996.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 13 September 1996
30 m awayRef 199697KC01209
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 15 June 2012
44 m awayRef 201297KB40906
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 18 July 2025
78 m awayRef 2025991618220
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 30 June 2004
80 m awayRef 200497KB44706
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 1 June 2004
83 m awayRef 200497KB40106
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 31 October 1999
84 m awayRef 199997KB71010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020990937617 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 2020.