A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 24 April 1981 at 22:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 22:45 on Friday 24 April 1981. The 19-year-old male driver and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 1981
- Friday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.40932, longitude -7.33101, in the HS7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981910030090
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 865
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 31 October 2008
50 m awayRef 200891NH06099
Fatal
Audi A4 crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 18 September 2014
56 m awayRef 201491NH05161
Serious
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 5 April 1983
100 m awayRef 1983910030053
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 4 April 1990
141 m awayRef 1990910030101
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 23 December 1985
283 m awayRef 1985910030280
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 October 1988
283 m awayRef 1988910030272
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1981910030090 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Na h-Eileanan Siar road accident statistics for 1981.