A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 11 December 2010 at 09:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 09:00 on Saturday 11 December 2010. A 13-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2010
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44113, longitude -4.78373, in the FK20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097LB70612
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 152 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 2010.
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 April 2010
152 m awayRef 201097LB70504
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 1 January 1983
202 m awayRef 198397LB50201
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 23 July 2011
320 m awayRef 201197LB71107
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2002
367 m awayRef 200297LB10607
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M85 in Argyll and Bute, 13 January 1993
416 m awayRef 199397LB00901
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 20 June 2018
463 m awayRef 201897LB02506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,830 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201097LB70612 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.