B845 crash in Argyll and Bute on 18 May 2013 at 23:30 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the B845 in Argyll and Bute at 23:30 on Saturday 18 May 2013. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2013
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.42665, longitude -5.22679, in the PA35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397LB02705
- 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
- 845
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 November 1996
89 m awayRef 199697LB70211
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 19 August 2018
103 m awayRef 201897LB02008
Serious
Minibus crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 19 February 1987
144 m awayRef 198797LB51502
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 23 November 2007
197 m awayRef 200797LB10811
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 30 August 1997
212 m awayRef 199797LB02108
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 29 April 2008
213 m awayRef 200897LB11504
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201397LB02705 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.