A859 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 20 January 1991 at 17:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 17:00 on Sunday 20 January 1991. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1991
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.95992, longitude -6.74576, in the HS3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991910030029
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 859
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 13 June 2015
53 m awayRef 201591NH03259
Serious
Volkswagen Fox crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 10 June 2022
110 m awayRef 2022991186483
Fatal
Land Rover Defender crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 16 January 1995
141 m awayRef 1995910030029
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 17 May 2007
787 m awayRef 200791NH02819
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 19 August 2004
873 m awayRef 200491NH05790
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A859 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 11 August 2009
1.3 km awayRef 200991NH04241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 1991910030029 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Na h-Eileanan Siar road accident statistics for 1991.