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A897 crash in Highland on 27 November 1994 at 21:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A897 in Highland at 21:15 on Sunday 27 November 1994. The 40-year-old male driver and a 39-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Nov 1994
Sunday, 21:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.33243, longitude -3.91094, in the KW11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Highland

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994910040565
Council area
Highland
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
897
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
Dark, lighting unknown
Weather
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 1.6 km away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 39, 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 1994910040565 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 1994.