B833 crash in Argyll and Bute on 12 September 1981 at 22:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B833 in Argyll and Bute at 22:00 on Saturday 12 September 1981. A 15-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 1981
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99832, longitude -4.7949, in the G84 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198197LF02409
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 833
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 10 June 1990
100 m awayRef 199097LF01206
Slight
Car crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 21 February 1981
100 m awayRef 198197LF02602
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 24 August 1980
141 m awayRef 198097LF03808
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 24 November 1988
141 m awayRef 198897LF03211
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 5 December 2015
198 m awayRef 201597LA00712
Fatal
Car crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 12 July 1983
224 m awayRef 198397LF01307
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198197LF02409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Argyll and Bute road accident statistics for 1981.