A817 crash in Argyll and Bute on 15 May 2002 at 20:00 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the A817 in Argyll and Bute at 20:00 on Wednesday 15 May 2002. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2002
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.03885, longitude -4.70073, in the G84 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297LA01705
- 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
- 817
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1990.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B832 in Argyll and Bute, 17 March 1990
177 m awayRef 199097LF02903
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 23 June 2003
187 m awayRef 200397LA71006
Fatal
Volvo crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 25 May 2000
310 m awayRef 200097LA70705
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 8 August 2004
403 m awayRef 200497LA02008
Fatal
Audi A3 crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 3 December 2019
404 m awayRef 2019970905193
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 9 July 1981
468 m awayRef 198197LF01407
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 200297LA01705 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 2002.