Serious A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 29 January 1987 at 03:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 03:00 on Thursday 29 January 1987. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 1987
- Thursday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.49, longitude -7.29601, 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
- 1987910030023
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2010.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 18 November 2010
177 m awayRef 201091NH06091
Slight
Volvo crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 15 November 1999
200 m awayRef 199991NH07042
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 16 September 1991
361 m awayRef 1991910030250
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 23 November 2011
618 m awayRef 201191NH06011
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 10 September 1984
640 m awayRef 1984910030173
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 3 October 1981
1.0 km awayRef 1981910030213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1987910030023 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 1987.