Serious A741 crash in Renfrewshire on 5 January 2023 at 21:30 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note hit a pedestrian on the A741 in Renfrewshire at 21:30 on Thursday 5 January 2023. A 69-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jan 2023
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87477, longitude -4.39335, in the PA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Renfrew. It is one of the crashes that make up the Renfrew North and Braehead, Renfrewshire, PA4 0TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023991260148
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 741
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 2008.
Serious
Dennis crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 9 February 2008
16 m awayRef 200897KB41402
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 1 March 2002
30 m awayRef 200297KB70103
Slight
Car crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 18 July 1983
42 m awayRef 198397KB77507
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on an unclassified road in Renfrewshire, 4 March 2006
52 m awayRef 200697KB40203
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 2 August 1993
61 m awayRef 199397KC60208
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A741 in Renfrewshire, 1 November 2019
68 m awayRef 2019970894349
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2023991260148 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 2023.