A761 crash in Renfrewshire on 9 October 2020 at 09:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire at 09:45 on Friday 9 October 2020. The 41-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 9 Oct 2020
- Friday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84618, longitude -4.49083, in the PA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Houston, Crosslee and Linwood, Renfrewshire, PA3 3EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990988558
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 761
- 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 20 November 2013
42 m awayRef 201397KB02611
Slight
Car crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 21 March 1988
67 m awayRef 198897KB44703
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 20 August 1986
67 m awayRef 198697KB43608
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 12 July 1980
70 m awayRef 198097KB52107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 31 March 1986
72 m awayRef 198697KB47003
Slight
Leyland crash on the A761 in Renfrewshire, 8 January 1996
72 m awayRef 199697KB40301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020990988558 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.