Serious A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 August 2016 at 15:42 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 15:42 on Wednesday 10 August 2016. The 62-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2016
- Wednesday, 15:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.25243, longitude -4.93695, in the PA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697LB01308
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 51 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 October 2007.
Fatal
Renault Laguna crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 27 October 2007
51 m awayRef 200797LB71210
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 14 November 1993
85 m awayRef 199397LD00811
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 August 2003
96 m awayRef 200397LB20808
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 27 March 2018
129 m awayRef 201897LB01903
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 2 June 2004
170 m awayRef 200497LB20306
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 5 October 2008
208 m awayRef 200897LB70310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201697LB01308 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.