Serious A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 18 October 1994 at 15:10 involving a JCB
A JCB crashed on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 15:10 on Tuesday 18 October 1994. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Oct 1994
- Tuesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- JCB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.30408, longitude -7.37226, in the HS8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994910030216
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 865
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 1996.
Serious
Land Rover 109 crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 1 November 1996
100 m awayRef 199691H007491
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 8 December 1992
200 m awayRef 1992910030303
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 20 August 1983
224 m awayRef 1983910030132
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 26 October 1986
224 m awayRef 1986910030233
Serious
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 22 February 1992
224 m awayRef 1992910030049
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 20 February 2023
285 m awayRef 2023991279018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: JCB
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (JCB)
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 1994910030216 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 1994.