Serious A897 crash in Highland on 15 August 1995 at 23:50 involving a Mercedes van
A Mercedes van crashed on the A897 in Highland at 23:50 on Tuesday 15 August 1995. The 33-year-old male driver and a 36-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and a 35-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 1995
- Tuesday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199591J003642
- 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
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 199591J003642 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 1995.