A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 13 May 1986 at 09:55 involving a lorry
A lorry and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 09:55 on Tuesday 13 May 1986. The 55-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 1986
- Tuesday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98819, longitude -4.95934, in the PA23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sandbank.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198697LD81005
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 815
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 26 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198397LD82401
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 15 August 2007
63 m awayRef 200797LB70808
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 7 February 2017
74 m awayRef 201797LB00602
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 6 August 2023
88 m awayRef 2023991338741
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 29 September 1996
100 m awayRef 199697LD01009
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 27 January 1986
100 m awayRef 198697LD82901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
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 198697LD81005 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.