Unclassified road crash in Highland IV18 on 25 June 1980 at 10:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 10:50 on Wednesday 25 June 1980. The 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1980
- Wednesday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.68853, longitude -4.17385, in the IV18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Invergordon.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980910120146
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 8 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983910120130
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 29 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980910120070
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 1 November 1984
At the same spotRef 1984910120243
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 May 2005
61 m awayRef 200591NE12574
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 26 August 2006
63 m awayRef 200691NE21592
Slight
Harley-Davidson FXD crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 17 September 2014
85 m awayRef 201491NE11723
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 1980910120146 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.