B843 crash in Argyll and Bute on 20 March 1991 at 07:45 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina crashed on the B843 in Argyll and Bute at 07:45 on Wednesday 20 March 1991. The 20-year-old male driver was 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
- 20 Mar 1991
- Wednesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.41519, longitude -5.69867, in the PA28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197LC01803
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 843
- 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, 78 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 July 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 2006
78 m awayRef 200697LB21007
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 30 November 1990
100 m awayRef 199097LC02311
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 2 March 2002
102 m awayRef 200297LB20003
Serious
Car crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 9 May 1987
141 m awayRef 198797LC65505
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 13 June 2000
180 m awayRef 200097LB21106
Serious
Subaru Subaru crash on the B843 in Argyll and Bute, 2 December 1991
200 m awayRef 199197LC00512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
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 199197LC01803 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.