A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 23 September 2014 at 18:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 18:05 on Tuesday 23 September 2014. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58743, longitude -5.69252, in the PA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB02609
- 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2005.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 18 November 2005
12 m awayRef 200597LB20911
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 13 September 2010
86 m awayRef 201097LB20609
Serious
Van crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 9 March 1984
115 m awayRef 198497LC65403
Serious
Kia Sedona crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 5 July 2008
176 m awayRef 200897LB70407
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 May 2006
220 m awayRef 200697LB20205
Slight
Lorry crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 20 May 1981
227 m awayRef 198197LC66105
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201497LB02609 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.