Unclassified road crash in Argyll and Bute G84 on 3 April 2001 at 22:45 involving a Vauxhall Calibra
A Vauxhall Calibra crashed on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute at 22:45 on Tuesday 3 April 2001. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2001
- Tuesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Calibra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.06865, longitude -4.8153, in the G84 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197LA70204
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 814
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2013.
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MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 20 August 2013
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Lorry crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 19 June 1988
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Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 11 May 1985
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Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 10 March 1982
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Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 11 August 1983
58 m awayRef 198397LF01308
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Peugeot 205 crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 2001
78 m awayRef 200197LA02408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Calibra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Calibra)
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 200197LA70204 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.