Serious B8073 crash in Argyll and Bute on 28 February 2014 at 09:35 involving an agricultural vehicle
An agricultural vehicle hit a pedestrian on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute at 09:35 on Friday 28 February 2014. A 41-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Feb 2014
- Friday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Agricultural vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61926, longitude -6.07672, in the PA75 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB03402
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8073
- 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
- Dry
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, 128 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 1989.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 19 May 1989
128 m awayRef 198997LB01305
Serious
Honda NH125MD crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 27 February 1991
204 m awayRef 199197LB02802
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 11 August 1983
219 m awayRef 198397LB51708
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 11 January 1986
229 m awayRef 198697LB50901
Serious
Car crash on the A848 in Argyll and Bute, 11 October 1982
229 m awayRef 198297LB50610
Fatal
Mobility scooter crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 3 July 2021
251 m awayRef 2021991065543
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Agricultural vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201497LB03402 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.