Serious A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 9 September 2017 at 15:00 involving a Peugeot Expert van
A motorcycle and a Peugeot Expert van were involved in a crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 15:00 on Saturday 9 September 2017. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 2017
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.2341, longitude -5.04602, in the PA25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797LB01409
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 September 2007.
Fatal
Honda CBR600F crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 10 September 2007
3 m awayRef 200797LB71109
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 21 June 2008
3 m awayRef 200897LB70906
Slight
Honda VFR800F crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 2004
3 m awayRef 200497LB71308
Serious
ERF crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 17 September 2009
8 m awayRef 200997LB21209
Slight
Car crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 January 1981
8 m awayRef 198197LD80701
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 16 March 1996
8 m awayRef 199697LD01003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201797LB01409 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.