Serious A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 13 December 1993 at 17:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 17:45 on Monday 13 December 1993. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 1993
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99177, longitude -5.444, in the PA30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397LC01012
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 83
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 9 June 1981
100 m awayRef 198197LC65306
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 February 1988
141 m awayRef 198897LC01802
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 3 July 2022
178 m awayRef 2022991194683
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 3 April 1994
200 m awayRef 199497LC00304
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 5 June 1991
200 m awayRef 199197LC00106
Slight
Van crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 7 December 1982
200 m awayRef 198297LC65512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199397LC01012 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 1993.