A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 7 April 1997 at 02:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 02:25 on Monday 7 April 1997. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 1997
- Monday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.03012, longitude -5.3575, in the PA31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199797LC00304
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 28 January 2015
25 m awayRef 201597LB05401
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 12 December 2017
49 m awayRef 201797LB01112
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 1 December 1981
141 m awayRef 198197LC65112
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 24 December 1988
224 m awayRef 198897LC02912
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 26 August 1989
361 m awayRef 198997LC03908
Serious
Talbot Horizon crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 July 1991
361 m awayRef 199197LC02707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 199797LC00304 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 1997.