A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 8 August 2014 at 23:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 23:05 on Friday 8 August 2014. An 18-year-old male passenger 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
- 8 Aug 2014
- Friday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4331, longitude -5.45414, in the PA34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB01508
- 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
- 85
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 20 October 2004
5 m awayRef 200497LB11410
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 12 November 2005
17 m awayRef 200597LB70311
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 19 September 2005
23 m awayRef 200597LB11209
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 8 May 2007
23 m awayRef 200797LB10305
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 December 2017
32 m awayRef 201797LB00912
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 18 March 2008
36 m awayRef 200897LB10803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201497LB01508 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.