A814 crash in Argyll and Bute on 21 November 2015 at 03:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A814 in Argyll and Bute at 03:20 on Saturday 21 November 2015. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2015
- Saturday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96118, longitude -4.64858, in the G82 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardross.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597LA04211
- 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
- 814
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2019.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 13 April 2019
20 m awayRef 201997LA00704
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 17 February 2005
27 m awayRef 200597LA03602
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 20 May 2004
27 m awayRef 200497LA05105
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 20 October 1981
37 m awayRef 198197LA05010
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 8 December 1981
64 m awayRef 198197LA01912
Serious
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 27 March 1998
64 m awayRef 199897LA06103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 201597LA04211 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 2015.