B843 crash in Argyll and Bute on 18 October 1983 at 23:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the B843 in Argyll and Bute at 23:55 on Tuesday 18 October 1983. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 1983
- Tuesday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42467, longitude -5.71221, in the PA28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397LC66910
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 843
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 20 March 1986
224 m awayRef 198697LC66503
Slight
Car crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 18 October 1990
316 m awayRef 199097LC03010
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 22 March 1999
320 m awayRef 199997LB70603
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 3 January 2003
320 m awayRef 200397LB70001
Serious
Car crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 7 October 1983
400 m awayRef 198397LC65810
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 24 January 2015
420 m awayRef 201597LB04601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198397LC66910 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 1983.