A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 26 May 1996 at 18:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 18:15 on Sunday 26 May 1996. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1996
- Sunday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.16051, longitude -5.18684, in the PA32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199697LD01505
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 83
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 26 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199297LD02806
Serious
Lada Samara crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 21 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199597LD70707
Fatal
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198597LD83003
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 10 February 2020
32 m awayRef 2020990929115
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 28 January 1999
64 m awayRef 199997LB70601
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 20 May 1991
100 m awayRef 199197LD03005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 199697LD01505 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.