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Serious A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 5 April 1983 at 15:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 15:00 on Tuesday 5 April 1983. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Apr 1983
Tuesday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.4094, longitude -7.32936, in the HS7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Na h-Eileanan Siar

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983910030053
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1983910030053 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 1983.