B8065 crash in Argyll and Bute on 9 October 2010 at 05:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute at 05:00 on Saturday 9 October 2010. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.49449, longitude -6.85511, 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
- 201097LB10810
- 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
- 8065
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 881 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2016.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 14 July 2016
881 m awayRef 201697LB01907
Fatal
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 1 May 1987
1.0 km awayRef 198797LB50105
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 25 September 1993
1.1 km awayRef 199397LB02009
Slight
Car crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 27 May 1980
1.3 km awayRef 198097LB54005
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 1997
1.5 km awayRef 199797LB00807
Serious
Car crash on the B8065 in Argyll and Bute, 24 July 1999
1.7 km awayRef 199997LB10507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201097LB10810 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.