B842 crash in Argyll and Bute on 21 January 1991 at 11:40 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the B842 in Argyll and Bute at 11:40 on Monday 21 January 1991. The 62-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1991
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.34049, longitude -5.64121, in the PA28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197LC01901
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 160 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 11 October 1999
160 m awayRef 199997LB30410
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 21 February 2009
360 m awayRef 200997LB21402
Slight
Car crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 9 January 2002
390 m awayRef 200297LB20101
Serious
Car crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 5 August 2005
740 m awayRef 200597LB20408
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 10 August 2012
770 m awayRef 201297LB70208
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 5 July 1993
806 m awayRef 199397LC00807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199197LC01901 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.