A817 crash in Argyll and Bute on 30 July 2000 at 18:30 involving a Ford Explorer
A Ford Explorer crashed on the A817 in Argyll and Bute at 18:30 on Sunday 30 July 2000. A 26-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2000
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Explorer
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07521, longitude -4.80742, in the G84 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097LA05007
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 817
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 4 April 2018
8 m awayRef 201897LA00304
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 11 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200297LA70410
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 15 October 2003
22 m awayRef 200397LA03210
Serious
Suzuki Splash crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 13 February 2024
78 m awayRef 2024991420439
Fatal
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 17 May 1987
271 m awayRef 198797LF02005
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 6 August 2004
347 m awayRef 200497LA01008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Explorer
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,008 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Explorer)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200097LA05007 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 2000.