Unclassified road crash in Highland IV2 on 23 May 2004 at 23:06 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 23:06 on Sunday 23 May 2004. A 32-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2004
- Sunday, 23:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.4693, longitude -4.21404, in the IV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Central, Highland, IV2 4XA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200491NN16633
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 January 1979
32 m awayRef 1979910090051
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B853 in Highland, 2 July 1996
32 m awayRef 199691N021291
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B853 in Highland, 21 August 1994
32 m awayRef 1994910090603
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 14 February 1985
32 m awayRef 1985910090114
Slight
Car crash on the B853 in Highland, 31 May 1986
32 m awayRef 1986910090448
Slight
Car crash on the B853 in Highland, 15 November 1993
32 m awayRef 1993910090801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, minibus occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 200491NN16633 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 2004.