A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 21 December 2000 at 01:25 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 01:25 on Thursday 21 December 2000. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77992, longitude -6.2498, in the PA44 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097LB21012
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 8 July 2014
12 m awayRef 201497LB01607
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 9 October 1991
50 m awayRef 199197LC01510
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 1995
50 m awayRef 199597LC00807
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 16 July 2006
110 m awayRef 200697LB20907
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 5 April 1991
163 m awayRef 199197LC00704
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A847 in Argyll and Bute, 7 August 1996
163 m awayRef 199697LC00508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- 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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200097LB21012 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.