Serious A82 crash in Highland on 26 December 1990 at 16:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A82 in Highland at 16:00 on Wednesday 26 December 1990. The 20-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 26 Dec 1990; Wednesday, 16:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1990910080033
Council area: Highland
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 82
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: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
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 1990910080033 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 1990.