A889 crash in Highland on 16 August 1980 at 10:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A889 in Highland at 10:40 on Saturday 16 August 1980. A 53-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 13-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 1980
- Saturday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.92984, longitude -4.24292, in the PH19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980910100254
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 889
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 2000.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A889 in Highland, 16 July 2000
100 m awayRef 200091NM09186
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A9 in Highland, 4 February 2013
190 m awayRef 201391NM01251
Serious
Car crash on the A889 in Highland, 7 May 1992
200 m awayRef 1992910100100
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A889 in Highland, 10 September 1994
300 m awayRef 1994910100214
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A889 in Highland, 16 May 1992
412 m awayRef 1992910100106
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A889 in Highland, 8 March 2020
431 m awayRef 2020990938020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1980910100254 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Highland road accident statistics for 1980.