Unclassified road crash in Highland PH50 on 30 July 2000 at 04:23 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 04:23 on Sunday 30 July 2000. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2000
- Sunday, 04:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.71717, longitude -4.96249, in the PH50 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200091NP07686
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 November 2002.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 24 November 2002
81 m awayRef 200291NP10812
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 February 1992
100 m awayRef 1992910080055
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 30 May 1997
100 m awayRef 199791P005162
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 1 July 2000
100 m awayRef 200091NP06500
Serious
Car crash on the B863 in Highland, 8 August 1992
224 m awayRef 1992910080334
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Highland, 24 November 2011
230 m awayRef 201191NP12914
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200091NP07686 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.