B8042 crash in Argyll and Bute on 14 December 2019 at 02:26 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B8042 in Argyll and Bute at 02:26 on Saturday 14 December 2019. The 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 02:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95369, longitude -4.93045, in the PA23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunoon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, PA23 7HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019970909523
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B8042 in Argyll and Bute, 6 November 2014
7 m awayRef 201497LB00911
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B8042 in Argyll and Bute, 16 February 2013
7 m awayRef 201397LB01502
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute, 26 December 2015
9 m awayRef 201597LB04012
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A885 in Argyll and Bute, 14 February 2005
14 m awayRef 200597LB70602
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8042 in Argyll and Bute, 24 August 1998
40 m awayRef 199897LB20808
Serious
Taxi crash on the A885 in Argyll and Bute, 26 October 1988
40 m awayRef 198897LD02810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2019970909523 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 2019.