Serious A82 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 August 2003 at 14:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A82 in Argyll and Bute at 14:05 on Sunday 10 August 2003. The 42-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.48759, longitude -4.74376, in the PA36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397LB70908
- 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
- 82
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2004.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 9 November 2004
32 m awayRef 200497LB10511
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 27 September 1993
40 m awayRef 199397LB01809
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 14 July 1994
108 m awayRef 199497LB00807
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 28 September 1996
108 m awayRef 199697LB70709
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 12 August 1998
108 m awayRef 199897LB11608
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 4 May 2024
116 m awayRef 2024991439607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 583 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200397LB70908 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.