A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 11 May 2018 at 14:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 14:30 on Friday 11 May 2018. The 46-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2018
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71945, longitude -5.61067, in the PA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897LB01605
- 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 with 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2022.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 27 November 2022
9 m awayRef 2022991247231
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 23 May 1998
92 m awayRef 199897LB30705
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 8 January 2005
120 m awayRef 200597LB20501
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 21 February 1992
172 m awayRef 199297LC01502
Serious
Lorry crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 17 September 1980
266 m awayRef 198097LC66309
Slight
HGV crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 21 March 2002
299 m awayRef 200297LB21703
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201897LB01605 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.