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Serious A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 8 February 1989 at 08:00 involving a minibus

A minibus crashed on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 08:00 on Wednesday 8 February 1989. A 30-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Feb 1989
Wednesday, 08:00
Vehicles
1
Minibus
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.44098, longitude -7.3907, in the HS7 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989910030045
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
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
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Minibus

    Minibus or motor caravan

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)

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 1989910030045 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 1989.