A816 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 February 2016 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute at 11:00 on Wednesday 10 February 2016. The 56-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2016
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05109, longitude -5.4494, in the PA31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697LB00902
- 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
- 816
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 16 September 1989
9 m awayRef 198997LC01409
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 14 March 2002
13 m awayRef 200297LB20803
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 14 February 2010
13 m awayRef 201097LB70802
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 31 May 2006
30 m awayRef 200697LB21705
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 2005
34 m awayRef 200597LB22307
Slight
Renault crash on the A816 in Argyll and Bute, 2 June 2003
58 m awayRef 200397LB20106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201697LB00902 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.