A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 30 August 2014 at 01:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 01:10 on Saturday 30 August 2014. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01221, longitude -5.44649, in the PA30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497LB05808
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2004.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2004
28 m awayRef 200497LB70607
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 14 December 1989
45 m awayRef 198997LC00912
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 11 August 1984
67 m awayRef 198497LC65808
Slight
Land Rover 88 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 26 November 1994
97 m awayRef 199497LC01711
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 29 June 2002
115 m awayRef 200297LB21806
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 November 1992
131 m awayRef 199297LC00511
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201497LB05808 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.