Serious A886 crash in Argyll and Bute on 16 July 2004 at 12:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A886 in Argyll and Bute at 12:30 on Friday 16 July 2004. A 7-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 26-year-old male passenger 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
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2004
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02404, longitude -5.20629, in the PA22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497LB71307
- 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
- 886
- 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
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, 761 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2014.
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on a C road in Argyll and Bute, 30 March 2014
761 m awayRef 201497LB03303
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the A886 in Argyll and Bute, 29 August 2021
777 m awayRef 2021991082094
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 22 August 2012
1.2 km awayRef 201297LB31108
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A886 in Argyll and Bute, 12 July 2007
2.0 km awayRef 200797LB31007
Slight
Lorry crash on the A886 in Argyll and Bute, 25 May 1998
2.3 km awayRef 199897LB21605
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on the A886 in Argyll and Bute, 20 August 1998
2.3 km awayRef 199897LB21108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200497LB71307 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.