A82 crash in Highland on 23 August 2005 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 11:00 on Tuesday 23 August 2005. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2005
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.36385, longitude -4.39343, in the IV3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200591NN29042
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2010.
Slight
HGV crash on the A82 in Highland, 18 August 2010
22 m awayRef 201091NN27670
Serious
Dacia Duster crash on the A82 in Highland, 3 October 2024
38 m awayRef 2024991499160
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 15 August 1990
60 m awayRef 1990910090692
Serious
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 5 September 1986
60 m awayRef 1986910090605
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A82 in Highland, 14 August 2025
62 m awayRef 2025991642414
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A82 in Highland, 23 August 2004
72 m awayRef 200491NN28470
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200591NN29042 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.