Serious A848 crash in Argyll and Bute on 13 June 2006 at 12:00 involving a Mercedes bus
A vehicle and a Mercedes bus were involved in a crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute at 12:00 on Tuesday 13 June 2006. The 59-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 2006
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.6228, longitude -6.06835, in the PA75 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697LB10606
- 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
- 848
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 20 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201197LB12012
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 15 March 2024
17 m awayRef 2024991421246
Slight
Van crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 19 December 1987
45 m awayRef 198797LB51312
Slight
Car crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 22 April 1982
63 m awayRef 198297LB51604
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 3 June 1998
89 m awayRef 199897LB10706
Slight
Car crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 5 October 1983
89 m awayRef 198397LB50610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 59, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 200697LB10606 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 2006.