B832 crash in Argyll and Bute on 6 September 2001 at 22:45 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B832 in Argyll and Bute at 22:45 on Thursday 6 September 2001. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2001
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04302, longitude -4.6575, in the G83 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197LA00709
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 832
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 17 March 2009
22 m awayRef 200997LA02903
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 26 August 2001
142 m awayRef 200197LA04708
Slight
Car crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 31 October 1980
157 m awayRef 198097LF03710
Slight
Car crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 1 February 1984
206 m awayRef 198497LF00202
Slight
Car crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 30 May 1986
294 m awayRef 198697LF05005
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 22 July 1991
304 m awayRef 199197LF03407
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, 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 200197LA00709 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 2001.