A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 15 February 1998 at 19:06 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 19:06 on Sunday 15 February 1998. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1998
- Sunday, 19:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42166, longitude -5.63288, in the PA28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897LB30602
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 1993.
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 17 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199397LC01510
Serious
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 25 August 1981
At the same spotRef 198197LC68408
Serious
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198297LC67612
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 22 July 2024
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Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 10 March 2001
50 m awayRef 200197LB20503
Slight
Car crash on the B842 in Argyll and Bute, 22 March 2019
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
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 199897LB30602 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.