Serious A9 crash in Highland on 4 March 1989 at 10:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A9 in Highland at 10:10 on Saturday 4 March 1989. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 1-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Mar 1989
- Saturday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.5801, longitude -4.35808, in the IV7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989910060071
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2015.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A9 in Highland, 5 September 2015
70 m awayRef 201591NE16032
Serious
JCB crash on the A9 in Highland, 29 October 2019
74 m awayRef 2019910892890
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A9 in Highland, 26 May 2008
81 m awayRef 200891NE10053
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A9 in Highland, 21 July 2005
82 m awayRef 200591NE17730
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A9 in Highland, 25 July 2019
90 m awayRef 2019910863183
Serious
Scania crash on the A9 in Highland, 14 June 2007
91 m awayRef 200791NE13940
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 1, 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 1989910060071 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.