A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 2 July 1997 at 01:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 01:10 on Wednesday 2 July 1997. A 30-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.11849, longitude -4.9983, in the PA27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199797LD00107
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 815
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 31 January 1981
At the same spotRef 198197LD81501
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 15 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198997LD00801
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 20 June 2009
20 m awayRef 200997LB30906
Serious
Harley-Davidson FLS crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 21 July 2018
31 m awayRef 201897LB02707
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 16 September 2017
33 m awayRef 201797LB02409
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 26 February 1986
100 m awayRef 198697LD82202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199797LD00107 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.