B8003 crash in Argyll and Bute on 8 April 2009 at 11:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the B8003 in Argyll and Bute at 11:45 on Wednesday 8 April 2009. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2009
- Wednesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.28343, longitude -5.61914, in the PA34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997LB70404
- 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
- 8003
- 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 763 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 May 2003.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 17 May 2003
763 m awayRef 200397LB70505
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B8003 in Argyll and Bute, 26 July 1992
837 m awayRef 199297LB04507
Slight
Car crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 13 August 1982
867 m awayRef 198297LB51408
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 7 October 2004
892 m awayRef 200497LB10510
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 29 April 1999
961 m awayRef 199997LB11204
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 4 July 2007
1.2 km awayRef 200797LB70307
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200997LB70404 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 2009.