A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 4 September 1986 at 14:20 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 14:20 on Thursday 4 September 1986. The 24-year-old male driver and a 30-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 1986
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59255, longitude -5.69154, in the PA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198697LC65509
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 83
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198997LC00402
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 September 1983
100 m awayRef 198397LC68109
Slight
Lorry crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 6 December 1989
200 m awayRef 198997LC00512
Slight
Lorry crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 18 June 1990
224 m awayRef 199097LC01806
Fatal
Skoda Karoq crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 27 November 2018
243 m awayRef 201897LB02711
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 22 December 2025
563 m awayRef 2025991686669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198697LC65509 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 1986.