B833 crash in Argyll and Bute on 17 July 1997 at 06:15 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro crashed on the B833 in Argyll and Bute at 06:15 on Thursday 17 July 1997. The 31-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08366, longitude -4.83644, in the G84 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199797LF01107
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 833
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1996.
Slight
Lorry crash on the B833 in Argyll and Bute, 3 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199697LF00509
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 8 October 1998
100 m awayRef 199897LA02210
Slight
Van crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 23 October 1987
100 m awayRef 198797LF02910
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 24 October 1981
100 m awayRef 198197LF02910
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 27 January 1992
100 m awayRef 199297LF02801
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 12 October 1990
141 m awayRef 199097LF02410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
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 199797LF01107 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.