A8 crash in Renfrewshire on 21 June 2025 at 02:15 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the A8 in Renfrewshire at 02:15 on Saturday 21 June 2025. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2025
- Saturday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86938, longitude -4.36693, in the G52 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Renfrew North and Braehead, Renfrewshire, PA4 0DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Renfrewshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991605752
- Council area
- Renfrewshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 8
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 8
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2017.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A8 in Renfrewshire, 18 May 2017
14 m awayRef 201797KB01905
Serious
Volvo crash on the A8 in Renfrewshire, 24 November 2023
15 m awayRef 2023991378659
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A8 in Renfrewshire, 27 April 2014
16 m awayRef 201497KB03304
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A8 in Renfrewshire, 7 February 2009
18 m awayRef 200997KB40802
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A8 in Glasgow City, 28 January 2002
18 m awayRef 200297GA05801
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A8 in Renfrewshire, 10 January 2002
24 m awayRef 200297KB41201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025991605752 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 2025.