Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV51 on 30 September 1987 at 16:20
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 16:20 on Wednesday 30 September 1987. A 55-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.68606, longitude -6.30511, in the IV51 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987910070227
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 55, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 1987910070227 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.