Serious B9161 crash in Highland on 21 March 1987 at 23:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B9161 in Highland at 23:15 on Saturday 21 March 1987. There were four casualties: three people were seriously injured and one was 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
- 21 Mar 1987
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 4
- 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.52314, longitude -4.27924, in the IV1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987910060055
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9161
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2002.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B9161 in Highland, 12 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200291NE03697
Slight
Car crash on the B9161 in Highland, 20 December 2006
94 m awayRef 200691NE32040
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B9161 in Highland, 26 June 1997
100 m awayRef 199791E013222
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B9161 in Highland, 24 March 2004
100 m awayRef 200491NE06947
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B9161 in Highland, 1 June 2024
111 m awayRef 2024991450939
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B9161 in Highland, 23 December 2018
111 m awayRef 201891SNE2671
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, 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 1987910060055 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 1987.