Serious unclassified road crash in Argyll and Bute PA77 on 7 April 2005 at 07:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute at 07:00 on Thursday 7 April 2005. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Apr 2005
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.52136, longitude -6.85579, 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
- 200597LB10304
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 8068
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 632 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2002.
Slight
Peugeot Zenith crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2002
632 m awayRef 200297LB10507
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2005
1.6 km awayRef 200597LB10107
Fatal
Car crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 1982
1.9 km awayRef 198297LB52307
Serious
Car crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 1 April 1985
2.1 km awayRef 198597LB50104
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B8069 in Argyll and Bute, 31 October 2005
2.7 km awayRef 200597LB11610
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 5 January 2012
2.8 km awayRef 201297LB10401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 200597LB10304 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 2005.