A890 crash in Highland on 21 December 1986 at 20:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A890 in Highland at 20:00 on Sunday 21 December 1986. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1986; Sunday, 20:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986910060004
Council area: Highland
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 890
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: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
42 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 42, 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 1986910060004 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 1986.