Serious A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 7 September 2003 at 19:04 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV and a Land Rover 90 were involved in a crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 19:04 on Sunday 7 September 2003. The 31-year-old male driver of the Honda CRV was seriously injured and the 36-year-old male driver of the Land Rover 90 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 2003
- Sunday, 19:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRV and Land Rover 90
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84184, longitude -6.08698, in the PA46 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397LB20709
- 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
- 846
- 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, 1.4 km away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2023.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 12 June 2023
1.4 km awayRef 2023991324933
Slight
Bus crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 21 September 1981
1.4 km awayRef 198197LC67109
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 30 July 2008
1.4 km awayRef 200897LB22007
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 2 October 1996
1.5 km awayRef 199697LC00310
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 11 September 1998
1.9 km awayRef 199897LB30709
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 20 July 1999
2.3 km awayRef 199997LB31307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover 90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover 90)
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 200397LB20709 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.