A848 crash in Argyll and Bute on 24 July 1989 at 21:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A848 in Argyll and Bute at 21:30 on Monday 24 July 1989. A 19-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 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 1989
- Monday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.54766, longitude -5.9762, in the PA72 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198997LB02407
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 848
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 126 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 8 September 2020
126 m awayRef 2020990979105
Slight
Nissan Terrano crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 19 March 1999
168 m awayRef 199997LB10503
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 14 November 2004
350 m awayRef 200497LB11211
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 16 September 1985
500 m awayRef 198597LB51209
Slight
Lorry crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 23 September 1981
608 m awayRef 198197LB52509
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 18 May 2004
626 m awayRef 200497LB70705
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198997LB02407 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 1989.