A849 crash in Argyll and Bute on 4 January 2012 at 15:15 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 crashed on the A849 in Argyll and Bute at 15:15 on Wednesday 4 January 2012. A 3-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a flooded dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2012
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4632, longitude -5.69714, in the PA65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LB10501
- 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
- 849
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 348 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2001.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 13 August 2001
348 m awayRef 200197LB11008
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 23 June 1995
376 m awayRef 199597LB02006
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 9 February 1997
386 m awayRef 199797LB00302
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 7 March 2012
652 m awayRef 201297LB10403
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 1991
1.1 km awayRef 199197LB03908
Serious
Car crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 25 August 1995
1.2 km awayRef 199597LB02908
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- 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 201297LB10501 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.