Serious B844 crash in Argyll and Bute on 13 August 2015 at 14:00 involving a motorcycle
A vehicle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute at 14:00 on Thursday 13 August 2015. The 66-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 13 Aug 2015
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.33814, longitude -5.52243, in the PA34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597LB03008
- 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
- 844
- 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, 152 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 23 July 1984
152 m awayRef 198497LB52307
Serious
Car crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 4 December 1985
221 m awayRef 198597LB50212
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 17 June 1993
524 m awayRef 199397LB02006
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B844 in Argyll and Bute, 23 June 2006
531 m awayRef 200697LB01406
Slight
Car crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 17 December 1987
585 m awayRef 198797LB51612
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 23 June 2023
597 m awayRef 2023991322707
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 805 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 66, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201597LB03008 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.