A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 26 November 2003 at 09:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 09:15 on Wednesday 26 November 2003. The 20-year-old female 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
- 26 Nov 2003
- Wednesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44113, longitude -5.30043, in the PA35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397LB10511
- 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
- 85
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2009.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 21 February 2009
14 m awayRef 200997LB10802
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 19 June 2006
50 m awayRef 200697LB11106
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 27 December 2000
63 m awayRef 200097LB11112
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 4 February 1998
64 m awayRef 199897LB10002
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 8 December 2003
80 m awayRef 200397LB10212
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 22 December 2000
100 m awayRef 200097LB10912
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 200397LB10511 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 2003.