A82 crash in Argyll and Bute on 26 November 2012 at 05:30 involving an Audi A4
A vehicle and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute at 05:30 on Monday 26 November 2012. The 65-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 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
- 26 Nov 2012
- Monday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13319, longitude -4.65713, in the G83 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LA06111
- 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
- 82
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2001.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 24 June 2001
67 m awayRef 200197LA04206
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 1 July 1988
92 m awayRef 198897LF00307
Slight
Lorry crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 17 August 1983
92 m awayRef 198397LF02408
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 30 July 1983
92 m awayRef 198397LF04307
Fatal
Scania crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 17 April 2023
97 m awayRef 2023991297539
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 15 March 1994
163 m awayRef 199497LF01603
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 201297LA06111 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 2012.