Serious A819 crash in Argyll and Bute on 6 January 1995 at 08:25
A vehicle crashed on the A819 in Argyll and Bute at 08:25 on Friday 6 January 1995. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 24-year-old female passenger 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jan 1995
- Friday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.25459, longitude -5.09292, in the PA32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199597LD00601
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 819
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2022.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 4 March 2022
73 m awayRef 2022991150464
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 5 July 1997
412 m awayRef 199797LD00307
Serious
Car crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 13 February 1990
510 m awayRef 199097LD01202
Serious
Scania crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 4 April 2020
537 m awayRef 2020990944292
Serious
Honda crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 25 June 1999
700 m awayRef 199997LB71206
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A819 in Argyll and Bute, 14 October 1998
806 m awayRef 199897LB70410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 199597LD00601 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 1995.