Serious A844 crash in Argyll and Bute on 29 June 2014 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the A844 in Argyll and Bute at 14:30 on Sunday 29 June 2014. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jun 2014
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86007, longitude -5.08149, in the PA20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB03706
- 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
- 844
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2003.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 30 March 2003
6 m awayRef 200397LB30703
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 4 February 2008
32 m awayRef 200897LB30302
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 20 May 2008
35 m awayRef 200897LB31005
Serious
Car crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 21 January 1989
55 m awayRef 198997LE00301
Slight
Car crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 30 April 1988
55 m awayRef 198897LE00804
Slight
Car crash on the A844 in Argyll and Bute, 25 February 2001
71 m awayRef 200197LB30802
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201497LB03706 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.