A9 crash in Highland on 4 September 2005 at 07:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A9 in Highland at 07:50 on Sunday 4 September 2005. The 19-year-old male driver, a 17-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2005
- Sunday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.47158, longitude -4.18132, in the IV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cradlehall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Millburn, Highland, IV2 3SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200591NN30651
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2003.
Slight
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Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B9006 in Highland, 30 July 1999
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Serious
Audi A5 crash on the B9006 in Highland, 27 September 2019
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B9006 in Highland, 4 January 1995
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B9006 in Highland, 22 November 1999
45 m awayRef 199991NN36713
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B9006 in Highland, 9 May 1998
45 m awayRef 199891N014220
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200591NN30651 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.