B842 crash in Argyll and Bute on 9 September 2008 at 11:20 involving a Mazda 5
A Mazda 5 hit a pedestrian on the B842 in Argyll and Bute at 11:20 on Tuesday 9 September 2008. A 67-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2008
- Tuesday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42701, longitude -5.60861, in the PA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Campbeltown. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, PA28 6DD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897LB20809
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 842
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 83
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 November 2011.
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 7 November 2011
14 m awayRef 201197LB21011
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 July 2011
14 m awayRef 201197LB20207
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 8 July 2017
14 m awayRef 201797LB01307
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 1 February 2025
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Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 November 2018
27 m awayRef 201897LB01311
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 July 1983
32 m awayRef 198397LC66807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary 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 200897LB20809 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.