A82 crash in Highland on 9 October 1993 at 20:55 involving an Audi 90
An Audi 90 and a Volvo 340 were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 20:55 on Saturday 9 October 1993. The 45-year-old male driver of the Audi 90, a 39-year-old female passenger in the Audi 90 and the 21-year-old male driver of the Volvo 340 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 1993
- Saturday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 90 and Volvo 340
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.43368, longitude -4.30699, in the IV3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993910090692
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 82
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2024.
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A82 in Highland, 11 June 2024
46 m awayRef 2024991454652
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A82 in Highland, 30 August 2017
48 m awayRef 201791NN22262
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the A82 in Highland, 11 October 2022
50 m awayRef 2022991230146
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A82 in Highland, 21 August 2008
71 m awayRef 200891NN29164
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 8 August 1987
141 m awayRef 1987910090537
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A82 in Highland, 6 September 1997
141 m awayRef 199791N029651
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 340
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 90)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 90)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 340)
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 1993910090692 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 1993.