Serious A815 crash in Argyll and Bute on 6 March 2017 at 03:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A815 in Argyll and Bute at 03:10 on Monday 6 March 2017. The 53-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Mar 2017
- Monday, 03:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.22928, longitude -4.9965, in the PA32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797LB01003
- 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
- 815
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 January 2010.
Serious
Car crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 8 January 2010
11 m awayRef 201097LB30401
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 10 October 1999
18 m awayRef 199997LB70210
Fatal
Isuzu Trucks Forward crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 9 December 2020
75 m awayRef 2020991006274
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 21 October 1997
133 m awayRef 199797LD02210
Serious
Toyota Starlet crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 18 April 2004
265 m awayRef 200497LB71204
Serious
Seat Arosa crash on the A815 in Argyll and Bute, 31 March 2015
289 m awayRef 201597LB05303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 201797LB01003 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 2017.