Serious A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 27 July 1991 at 04:00 involving a Land Rover 90
A Land Rover 90 crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 04:00 on Saturday 27 July 1991. The 24-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 1991
- Saturday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover 90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94189, longitude -5.85292, in the PA60 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197LC03507
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 846
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2.4 km away, was a serious injury crash on 28 September 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the B8024 in Argyll and Bute, 28 September 1980
2.4 km awayRef 198097LC69009
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 16 September 2000
3.8 km awayRef 200097LB21009
Slight
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 14 July 1989
6.8 km awayRef 198997LC02007
Slight
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 22 September 1982
7.6 km awayRef 198297LC66409
Serious
Subaru Outback crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 16 July 2023
8.6 km awayRef 2023991331580
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 22 August 2002
8.9 km awayRef 200297LB21108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover 90
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 24, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover 90)
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 199197LC03507 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.