Unclassified road crash in Argyll and Bute PA75 on 11 April 2014 at 12:00 involving a Dennis lorry
A Dennis lorry and a mobility scooter were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute at 12:00 on Friday 11 April 2014. The 66-year-old female rider of the mobility scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2014
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and mobility scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.62383, longitude -6.07327, in the PA75 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB01604
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
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, 156 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2002.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 27 May 2002
156 m awayRef 200297LB11505
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 18 September 1987
178 m awayRef 198797LB52909
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 13 December 2005
205 m awayRef 200597LB11512
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 5 June 2013
210 m awayRef 201397LB02006
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 22 June 1994
270 m awayRef 199497LB02806
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 29 January 1997
270 m awayRef 199797LB01301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 66, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 2 (Mobility scooter)
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 201497LB01604 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.