B836 crash in Argyll and Bute on 21 March 2017 at 13:33 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan crashed on the B836 in Argyll and Bute at 13:33 on Tuesday 21 March 2017. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 13:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00653, longitude -5.12004, in the PA23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797LB02803
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 836
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2015.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 3 June 2015
25 m awayRef 201597LB00406
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 6 August 1993
311 m awayRef 199397LD00708
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 6 October 2008
458 m awayRef 200897LB30510
Serious
Car crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 13 March 1985
470 m awayRef 198597LD80803
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 17 March 1993
576 m awayRef 199397LD00503
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B836 in Argyll and Bute, 10 October 2017
616 m awayRef 201797LB01510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201797LB02803 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.