Unclassified road crash in Highland IV3 on 3 September 2000 at 14:55 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 14:55 on Sunday 3 September 2000. A 5-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2000
- Sunday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen ZX and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.48253, longitude -4.24337, in the IV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200091NN29046
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A862 in Highland, 31 December 1989
At the same spotRef 1989910090008
Slight
Car crash on the A862 in Highland, 1 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987910090064
Slight
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A862 in Highland, 11 July 2022
94 m awayRef 2022991197295
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A862 in Highland, 19 April 2006
99 m awayRef 200691NN13733
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 August 1990
100 m awayRef 1990910090732
Slight
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 December 1997
100 m awayRef 199791N042811
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200091NN29046 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 2000.