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Serious A830 crash in Highland on 23 August 1983 at 12:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A830 in Highland at 12:00 on Tuesday 23 August 1983. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Aug 1983
Tuesday, 12:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.95901, longitude -5.81917, in the PH40 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Highland

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983910080262
Council area
Highland
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
830
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2012.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Towing and articulation
    Caravan
    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1983910080262 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 1983.