A816 crash in Argyll and Bute on 5 September 2011 at 22:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A816 in Argyll and Bute at 22:20 on Monday 5 September 2011. The 43-year-old male 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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2011
- Monday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.3795, longitude -5.46021, 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
- 201197LB10309
- 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
- 816
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 15 March 1996
81 m awayRef 199697LB70303
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 26 July 2005
126 m awayRef 200597LB71307
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 24 November 2021
187 m awayRef 2021991113894
Slight
Car crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 6 August 1986
304 m awayRef 198697LB50608
Slight
Optare crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 10 May 2019
313 m awayRef 201997LB00705
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 15 November 2019
336 m awayRef 2019970899372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201197LB10309 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 2011.