B8065 crash in Argyll and Bute on 12 May 2010 at 01:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute at 01:30 on Wednesday 12 May 2010. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2010
- Wednesday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.50389, longitude -6.80767, in the PA77 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097LB10505
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 8068
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 7 December 2015
3 m awayRef 201597LB00912
Serious
Car crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 10 December 2004
30 m awayRef 200497LB10312
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 22 November 1994
141 m awayRef 199497LB00911
Serious
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 25 March 1987
412 m awayRef 198797LB51903
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B8068 in Argyll and Bute, 8 July 2009
439 m awayRef 200997LB10907
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2023
464 m awayRef 2023991331618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201097LB10505 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 2010.