A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 3 December 2016 at 17:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 17:45 on Saturday 3 December 2016. The 64-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0228, longitude -5.36551, 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
- 201697LB00212
- 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
- Dual 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 25 May 2019
26 m awayRef 201997LB01705
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Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 August 1987
35 m awayRef 198797LC66608
Slight
Van crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 4 June 1983
65 m awayRef 198397LC65506
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Van crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 28 May 1980
65 m awayRef 198097LC70705
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 29 July 2013
99 m awayRef 201397LB04607
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 11 September 2018
108 m awayRef 201897LB00809
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 201697LB00212 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 2016.