A971 crash in the Shetland Islands on 12 May 2007 at 12:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A971 in the Shetland Islands at 12:30 on Saturday 12 May 2007. The 26-year-old female driver was 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
- 12 May 2007
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 60.2473, longitude -1.37045, in the ZE2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Shetland Islands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200791NL02937
- Council area
- Shetland Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 971
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 112 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 August 1996.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 15 August 1996
112 m awayRef 199691L004572
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 8 April 2013
138 m awayRef 201391NL01856
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 14 June 2004
184 m awayRef 200491NL03871
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 25 December 2023
1.3 km awayRef 2023991392118
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 17 April 2010
1.3 km awayRef 201091NL02061
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 18 January 2002
2.0 km awayRef 200291NL00261
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200791NL02937 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shetland Islands road accident statistics for 2007.