Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV51 on 31 January 1994 at 16:00 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird and two bicycles were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 16:00 on Monday 31 January 1994. The 44-year-old male cyclist and the 53-year-old male cyclist were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 1994
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Bluebird and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66978, longitude -6.25451, in the IV51 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994910090126
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 539 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2009.
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the A855 in Highland, 22 August 2009
539 m awayRef 200991NP09964
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 April 1985
608 m awayRef 1985910070039
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A855 in Highland, 20 January 1999
762 m awayRef 199991NE01308
Slight
Car crash on the A855 in Highland, 10 July 1982
762 m awayRef 1982910070110
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A855 in Highland, 13 April 2006
1.0 km awayRef 200691NE08718
Serious
Car crash on the A855 in Highland, 6 October 1982
1.1 km awayRef 1982910070203
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 3: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 44, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, on vehicle 3 (Bicycle)
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 1994910090126 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.