Serious A830 crash in Highland on 17 December 1987 at 16:20 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A830 in Highland at 16:20 on Thursday 17 December 1987. The 79-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 1987
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987910080429
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 79, 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 1987910080429 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.