A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 23 July 2011 at 23:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 23:15 on Saturday 23 July 2011. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4403, longitude -4.7887, 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
- 201197LB71107
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2002.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2002
50 m awayRef 200297LB10607
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 20 June 2018
143 m awayRef 201897LB02506
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 29 July 2024
147 m awayRef 2024991473518
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 April 2010
171 m awayRef 201097LB70504
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 1 January 1983
192 m awayRef 198397LB50201
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 December 2010
320 m awayRef 201097LB70612
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201197LB71107 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.