Serious A82 crash in Argyll and Bute on 27 January 2014 at 08:15 involving a BMW X6
A BMW X6 crashed on the A82 in Argyll and Bute at 08:15 on Monday 27 January 2014. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jan 2014
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.54555, longitude -4.75991, in the PA36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB02201
- 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
- 82
- Road type
- Dual 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2013.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 29 September 2013
10 m awayRef 201397LB04209
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 1 June 2002
23 m awayRef 200297LB70006
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 27 August 2012
28 m awayRef 201297LB11208
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 9 September 2009
50 m awayRef 200997LB70709
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 7 April 2001
69 m awayRef 200197LB10204
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 11 June 1993
91 m awayRef 199397LB01206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X6)
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 201497LB02201 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.