A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 19 May 2014 at 05:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 05:35 on Monday 19 May 2014. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2014
- Monday, 05:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.25554, longitude -4.93575, in the PA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB02505
- 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
- 83
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 7 July 2014
36 m awayRef 201497LB01407
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 27 September 2008
146 m awayRef 200897LB71109
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 5 October 2008
146 m awayRef 200897LB70310
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 June 2004
185 m awayRef 200497LB20306
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 1 July 2008
248 m awayRef 200897LB70207
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 14 November 1993
276 m awayRef 199397LD00811
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201497LB02505 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.