Unclassified road crash in Highland IV3 on 30 January 2003 at 18:30 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Highland at 18:30 on Thursday 30 January 2003. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2003
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.48474, longitude -4.23516, in the IV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Central, Highland, IV1 1RN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200391NN03422
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2002.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 11 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200291NN08344
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 10 October 2014
20 m awayRef 201491NN29192
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 10 May 2024
24 m awayRef 2024991441251
Slight
Car crash on the B9146 in Highland, 18 June 1989
30 m awayRef 1989910090388
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 5 September 1986
30 m awayRef 1986910090604
Slight
Car crash on the B9146 in Highland, 13 August 1989
30 m awayRef 1989910090534
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,457 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200391NN03422 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 2003.