Serious unclassified road crash in Argyll and Bute PA75 on 23 September 1991 at 14:10 involving a JCB
A JCB and a Land Rover 110 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute at 14:10 on Monday 23 September 1991. The 47-year-old male driver of the Land Rover 110 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 1991
- Monday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- JCB and Land Rover 110
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.5877, longitude -6.18087, in the PA75 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197LB02309
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 316 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 11 October 1982
316 m awayRef 198297LB51110
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 19 June 1981
361 m awayRef 198197LB51306
Serious
Renault Zoe crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 17 December 2025
755 m awayRef 2025991684402
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2014
872 m awayRef 201497LB01107
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 6 August 1987
1.1 km awayRef 198797LB51608
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 3 November 1991
1.5 km awayRef 199197LB00611
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: JCB
Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover 110
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover 110)
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 199197LB02309 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 1991.