A9 crash in Highland on 28 October 1981 at 18:20 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A9 in Highland at 18:20 on Wednesday 28 October 1981. The 20-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 1981
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.47017, longitude -3.12801, in the KW1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981910040281
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 December 1995.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A9 in Highland, 30 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199591J009057
Serious
Minibus crash on the A9 in Highland, 10 April 1991
At the same spotRef 1991910040096
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A99 in Highland, 20 November 1996
100 m awayRef 199691J013771
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 23 October 1995
141 m awayRef 199591J006425
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A9 in Highland, 20 June 1993
141 m awayRef 1993910040159
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A99 in Highland, 5 January 2002
141 m awayRef 200291NJ00195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1981910040281 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 1981.