Serious A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 1 June 2011 at 11:05 involving a Daewoo Leganza
A Daewoo Leganza crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 11:05 on Wednesday 1 June 2011. A 65-year-old female passenger and the 66-year-old male driver were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 2011
- Wednesday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daewoo Leganza
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75543, longitude -6.28669, in the PA43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197LB20106
- 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
- 846
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 6 June 2003
45 m awayRef 200397LB20806
Slight
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 7 January 1986
64 m awayRef 198697LC65501
Serious
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 18 August 1984
64 m awayRef 198497LC67108
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 16 May 1982
64 m awayRef 198297LC66005
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 11 September 1993
64 m awayRef 199397LC01309
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 27 October 1998
78 m awayRef 199897LB31310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Leganza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Leganza)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Leganza)
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 201197LB20106 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.