A814 crash in Argyll and Bute on 22 November 2014 at 12:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A814 in Argyll and Bute at 12:55 on Saturday 22 November 2014. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95917, longitude -4.64549, in the G82 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardross.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LA05011
- 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
- 814
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 16 August 2001
2 m awayRef 200197LA02908
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 5 November 2003
2 m awayRef 200397LA00211
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 21 June 2025
10 m awayRef 2025991606277
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 25 November 1999
11 m awayRef 199997LA04411
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 15 May 2001
11 m awayRef 200197LA01905
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 10 August 2014
16 m awayRef 201497LA02108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201497LA05011 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 2014.