Serious B8068 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 December 2004 at 14:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute at 14:00 on Friday 10 December 2004. The 51-year-old male driver 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 Dec 2004
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.50388, longitude -6.80816, in the PA77 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497LB10312
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8068
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 7 December 2015
29 m awayRef 201597LB00912
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 12 May 2010
30 m awayRef 201097LB10505
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 22 November 1994
122 m awayRef 199497LB00911
Serious
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 25 March 1987
421 m awayRef 198797LB51903
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 8 July 2009
434 m awayRef 200997LB10907
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2023
489 m awayRef 2023991331618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200497LB10312 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 2004.