B8025 crash in Argyll and Bute on 28 April 2015 at 15:50 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute at 15:50 on Tuesday 28 April 2015. The 40-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2015
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02638, longitude -5.62179, in the PA31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597LB04004
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8025
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 111 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 April 2006.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 2 April 2006
111 m awayRef 200697LB20304
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 11 May 1990
166 m awayRef 199097LC00805
Serious
Van crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 15 April 1988
308 m awayRef 198897LC02304
Serious
Car crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 19 April 1981
354 m awayRef 198197LC66204
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 17 April 1993
607 m awayRef 199397LC01304
Serious
LDV 400 Series crash on the B8025 in Argyll and Bute, 27 May 2004
836 m awayRef 200497LB21605
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
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 201597LB04004 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.