A865 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 3 May 1995 at 23:00 involving a Toyota Hilux van
A Toyota Hilux van crashed on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 23:00 on Wednesday 3 May 1995. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1995
- Wednesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Hilux
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.38468, longitude -7.33909, in the HS8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995910031684
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 October 1983
224 m awayRef 1983910030193
Slight
Volkswagen Caravelle crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 10 May 1998
300 m awayRef 199891H002455
Slight
Car crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 3 October 1985
361 m awayRef 1985910030206
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 21 December 2004
418 m awayRef 200491NH08797
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 April 2000
539 m awayRef 200091NH02607
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A865 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 6 October 2003
632 m awayRef 200391NH07054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hilux
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)
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 1995910031684 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 1995.