Unclassified road crash in Highland IV40 on 28 December 1982 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 23:00 on Tuesday 28 December 1982. The 19-year-old female driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1982
- Tuesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.28129, longitude -5.71641, in the IV40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982910070262
- 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
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2007.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 4 July 2007
32 m awayRef 200791NE15559
Serious
Bus crash on the A87 in Highland, 17 September 1988
141 m awayRef 1988910070220
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A87 in Highland, 20 March 2005
175 m awayRef 200591NE06847
Serious
Nissan Note crash on the A87 in Highland, 28 November 2014
184 m awayRef 201491NP12116
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A87 in Highland, 1 March 2017
193 m awayRef 201791NP01736
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A87 in Highland, 30 July 1980
200 m awayRef 1980910070137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 1982910070262 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 1982.