Serious A844 crash in Argyll and Bute on 6 September 2013 at 21:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A844 in Argyll and Bute at 21:35 on Friday 6 September 2013. The 49-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2013
- Friday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8507, longitude -5.06274, in the PA20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397LB00909
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 844
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 113 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1980.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 19 October 1980
113 m awayRef 198097LE95410
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 1 January 1992
113 m awayRef 199297LD10101
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 11 November 2014
114 m awayRef 201497LB01811
Slight
Van crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 16 April 1985
120 m awayRef 198597LE95504
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 17 October 1990
198 m awayRef 199097LD10210
Fatal
Austin Maestro crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 29 November 1993
319 m awayRef 199397LD10311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201397LB00909 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 2013.