Serious A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 31 May 1998 at 02:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 02:10 on Sunday 31 May 1998. A 16-year-old male passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 1998
- Sunday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12274, longitude -5.00829, in the PA27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897LB21705
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 2003.
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 1 April 2003
36 m awayRef 200397LB00204
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 16 May 2000
41 m awayRef 200097LB70505
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 18 September 1998
100 m awayRef 199897LB20809
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 8 April 1987
100 m awayRef 198797LD80404
Serious
Renault 18 crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 26 October 1991
100 m awayRef 199197LD02810
Slight
Renault crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 1 September 2006
120 m awayRef 200697LB70109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199897LB21705 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 1998.