A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 5 May 1998 at 07:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 07:40 on Tuesday 5 May 1998. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 1998
- Tuesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.1236, longitude -5.00997, in the PA27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897LB70105
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2006.
Slight
Renault crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 1 September 2006
22 m awayRef 200697LB70109
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 10 December 1992
100 m awayRef 199297LD00612
Serious
Freight Rover crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 14 March 1994
100 m awayRef 199497LD00703
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 8 April 1987
100 m awayRef 198797LD80404
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 18 September 1998
100 m awayRef 199897LB20809
Serious
Renault 18 crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 26 October 1991
100 m awayRef 199197LD02810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,093 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199897LB70105 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.