A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 June 1997 at 21:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 21:30 on Tuesday 10 June 1997. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 1997
- Tuesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6803, longitude -5.64411, in the PA29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199797LC00706
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1993.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199797LC00706 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.