A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 1 January 2018 at 12:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 12:20 on Monday 1 January 2018. A 31-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2018
- Monday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44397, longitude -5.31415, in the PA35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897LB00201
- 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
- 85
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 106 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 April 1994.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 30 April 1994
106 m awayRef 199497LB02404
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 8 January 1983
156 m awayRef 198397LB50501
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 18 June 2003
157 m awayRef 200397LB11406
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 12 February 1989
235 m awayRef 198997LB00802
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 19 June 1987
276 m awayRef 198797LB52106
Serious
Minibus crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 January 1988
276 m awayRef 198897LB50501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201897LB00201 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 2018.