Serious A835 crash in Highland on 12 December 1998 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 106
A car and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A835 in Highland at 18:00 on Saturday 12 December 1998. The 40-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 106 was seriously injured and a 39-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1998
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.54203, longitude -4.37567, in the IV6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199891E024746
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 835
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2013.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A835 in Highland, 18 December 2013
73 m awayRef 201391NE16835
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A835 in Highland, 8 December 2006
108 m awayRef 200691NE30991
Slight
Car crash on the A835 in Highland, 5 November 1991
283 m awayRef 1991910060358
Serious
Car crash on the A835 in Highland, 28 September 1984
361 m awayRef 1984910060251
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A835 in Highland, 23 December 1998
500 m awayRef 199891E025677
Serious
Car crash on the A835 in Highland, 13 November 1982
500 m awayRef 1982910060322
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
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 199891E024746 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 1998.