B9176 crash in Highland on 26 October 2005 at 15:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the B9176 in Highland at 15:30 on Wednesday 26 October 2005. The 74-year-old male driver of the car and the 61-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2005
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.71469, longitude -4.28021, in the IV17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200591NE26580
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9176
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2019.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B9176 in Highland, 29 May 2019
34 m awayRef 201991NE01684
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A836 in Highland, 30 June 1979
41 m awayRef 1979910120175
Slight
Car crash on the A836 in Highland, 29 August 1982
41 m awayRef 1982910120241
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR crash on the B9176 in Highland, 6 August 2025
47 m awayRef 2025991625671
Slight
Scania crash on the B9176 in Highland, 22 December 1998
98 m awayRef 199891E025572
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A836 in Highland, 17 April 1984
117 m awayRef 1984910120097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 200591NE26580 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 2005.