Serious A836 crash in Highland on 27 December 1991 at 11:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A836 in Highland at 11:20 on Friday 27 December 1991. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1991; Friday, 11:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1991910040376
Council area: Highland
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 836
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front 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 1991910040376 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 1991.