B888 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 27 November 1995 at 14:55 involving a Volkswagen Jetta
A Volkswagen Jetta crashed on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 14:55 on Monday 27 November 1995. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1995
- Monday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Jetta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16199, longitude -7.3698, in the HS8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199591H006346
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 888
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 90 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2003.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 August 2003
90 m awayRef 200391NH06178
Fatal
Rover Maestro crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 February 1995
100 m awayRef 1995910030424
Slight
Car crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 29 April 1991
200 m awayRef 1991910030112
Serious
Car crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 26 November 1981
200 m awayRef 1981910030264
Serious
Car crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 14 June 1982
200 m awayRef 1982910030106
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 10 February 2011
359 m awayRef 201191NH00740
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Jetta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Jetta)
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 199591H006346 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.