B842 crash in Argyll and Bute on 26 July 1987 at 20:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute at 20:30 on Sunday 26 July 1987. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 26 Jul 1987
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.68554, longitude -5.46316, in the PA29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198797LC67007
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 842
- 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, 208 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2016.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 11 May 2016
208 m awayRef 201697LB01605
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 2 August 2000
500 m awayRef 200097LB20308
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 9 August 2003
772 m awayRef 200397LB70508
Slight
Toyota Verso crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 7 May 2012
944 m awayRef 201297LB20305
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 26 May 2015
1.2 km awayRef 201597LB04105
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 5 August 2017
1.3 km awayRef 201797LB00708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198797LC67007 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 1987.