Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV20 on 1 January 1982 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 00:30 on Friday 1 January 1982. The 48-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 1982
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.80841, longitude -3.92858, in the IV20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982910120002
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 244 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2003.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Citroen Visa crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 September 1990
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Serious
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 25 September 2004
724 m awayRef 200491NE23182
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 March 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 48, 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 1982910120002 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.