Serious A849 crash in Argyll and Bute on 24 July 2006 at 09:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute at 09:45 on Monday 24 July 2006. The 65-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 24 Jul 2006
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.32385, longitude -6.20866, in the PA67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697LB11107
- 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
- 849
- 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, 166 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A749 in Argyll and Bute, 19 December 2015
166 m awayRef 201597LB03012
Serious
Bus crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 3 August 1999
331 m awayRef 199997LB10508
Slight
Car crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 1 October 1981
564 m awayRef 198197LB50110
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 17 February 1999
883 m awayRef 199997LB10902
Slight
Car crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 1981
948 m awayRef 198197LB53008
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 19 October 1990
1.0 km awayRef 199097LB01710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 65, 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 200697LB11107 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.