Serious A884 crash in Highland on 6 June 1990 at 16:20 involving a lorry
A lorry and a minibus were involved in a crash on the A884 in Highland at 16:20 on Wednesday 6 June 1990. A female passenger in the minibus 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
- 6 Jun 1990
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.68208, longitude -5.57707, in the PH36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990910080210
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 884
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 700 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A884 in Highland, 13 March 1994
700 m awayRef 1994910080071
Slight
Car crash on the A884 in Highland, 12 September 1985
806 m awayRef 1985910080334
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 29 June 1985
1.1 km awayRef 1985910080159
Slight
Car crash on the A861 in Highland, 5 February 1988
1.3 km awayRef 1988910080034
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A861 in Highland, 19 February 1994
1.4 km awayRef 1994910080051
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A861 in Highland, 2 May 2024
1.6 km awayRef 2024991438417
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1990910080210 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.