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A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 27 July 1996 at 01:40 involving a Rover Metro

A Rover Metro crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 01:40 on Saturday 27 July 1996. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Jul 1996
Saturday, 01:40
Vehicles
1
Rover Metro
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82046, longitude -6.15718, in the PA45 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199697LC02007
Council area
Argyll and Bute
Police force
Strathclyde
Highway authority
Argyll & Bute

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
846
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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, 154 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Metro

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    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
    16 years
    Engine capacity
    1,118 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 199697LC02007 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 1996.