Unclassified road crash in Highland on 19 December 1990 at 07:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Renault 11 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 07:30 on Wednesday 19 December 1990. The 18-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1990
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Renault 11
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990910120001
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 11
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1990910120001 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.