A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 7 August 2000 at 10:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 10:55 on Monday 7 August 2000. The 19-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
- 7 Aug 2000
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.11912, longitude -4.98199, in the PA27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097LB70708
- 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
- 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, 995 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 January 2010.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 25 January 2010
995 m awayRef 201097LB71101
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 7 October 2006
1.0 km awayRef 200697LB30510
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 11 April 1982
1.0 km awayRef 198297LD80804
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 15 January 1989
1.0 km awayRef 198997LD00801
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 2 July 1997
1.0 km awayRef 199797LD00107
Slight
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 31 January 1981
1.0 km awayRef 198197LD81501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200097LB70708 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.