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Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV41 on 14 January 1997 at 00:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf

A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 00:30 on Tuesday 14 January 1997. The 19-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Jan 1997
Tuesday, 00:30
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Golf
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.27338, longitude -5.7405, in the IV41 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Highland

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199791E000893
Council area
Highland
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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, street lights unlit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    1,595 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)

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 199791E000893 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 1997.