A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 29 April 2008 at 19:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 19:30 on Tuesday 29 April 2008. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2008
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.42635, longitude -5.2302, in the PA35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897LB11504
- 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
- 85
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2025.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 26 May 2025
8 m awayRef 2025991594968
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 30 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199797LB02108
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 25 January 2006
22 m awayRef 200697LB11001
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 23 November 2007
28 m awayRef 200797LB10811
Fatal
Skoda Superb crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 10 October 2021
92 m awayRef 2021991096712
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 1 November 2010
95 m awayRef 201097LB10111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 200897LB11504 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 2008.