A895 crash in Highland on 17 November 1989 at 18:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A895 in Highland at 18:45 on Friday 17 November 1989. A 21-year-old male passenger and the 20-year-old female driver were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 17 Nov 1989; Friday, 18:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1989910040314
Council area: Highland
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 895
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 with high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Entered ditch
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 20, 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 1989910040314 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 1989.