Serious A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 6 August 2000 at 01:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 01:45 on Sunday 6 August 2000. The 30-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Aug 2000
- Sunday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78301, longitude -6.24902, in the PA44 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097LB21008
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 846
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2023.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 28 September 2023
52 m awayRef 2023991381451
Slight
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 25 January 1998
80 m awayRef 199897LB31001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 26 June 2015
126 m awayRef 201597LB04206
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 10 August 2020
131 m awayRef 2020990971295
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 5 April 1991
206 m awayRef 199197LC00704
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A847 in Argyll and Bute, 7 August 1996
206 m awayRef 199697LC00508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200097LB21008 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.