Serious B8024 crash in Argyll and Bute on 9 May 2013 at 17:59 involving a car
A car crashed on the B8024 in Argyll and Bute at 17:59 on Thursday 9 May 2013. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 May 2013
- Thursday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81794, longitude -5.65004, in the PA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397LB01605
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8024
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 1.0 km away, was a serious injury crash on 11 June 2010.
Serious
BMW crash on the B8024 in Argyll and Bute, 11 June 2010
1.0 km awayRef 201097LB21206
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B8024 in Argyll and Bute, 7 November 2004
1.2 km awayRef 200497LB20411
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 11 August 1984
1.3 km awayRef 198497LC65708
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 31 May 1979
2.2 km awayRef 197997LC65705
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 10 December 1979
2.3 km awayRef 197997LC65112
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 1979
2.3 km awayRef 197997LC67408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201397LB01605 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.