A887 crash in Highland on 22 February 1992 at 21:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A887 in Highland at 21:45 on Saturday 22 February 1992. A 26-year-old female passenger and a 4-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 1992
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.20271, longitude -4.71313, in the IV63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992910090143
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 887
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2005.
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A887 in Highland, 13 February 2005
100 m awayRef 200591NN04756
Slight
Minibus crash on the A887 in Highland, 26 December 1989
141 m awayRef 1989910091019
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A82 in Highland, 18 October 2010
373 m awayRef 201091NN35327
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A887 in Highland, 17 December 1999
600 m awayRef 199991NN39409
Serious
Scooter crash on the A887 in Highland, 30 June 1985
700 m awayRef 1985910090437
Slight
Scania crash on the A887 in Highland, 4 October 2021
861 m awayRef 2021991094647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1992910090143 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 1992.