Unclassified road crash in Highland IV2 on 9 May 2008 at 17:30 involving a Suzuki Ignis
A Suzuki Ignis hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Highland at 17:30 on Friday 9 May 2008. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 9 May 2008
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Ignis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.47966, longitude -4.15044, in the IV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cradlehall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Culloden and Ardersier, Highland, IV2 7NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200891NN15488
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 April 2001
108 m awayRef 200191NN13117
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 October 1987
108 m awayRef 1987910090819
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 17 December 1989
108 m awayRef 1989910090977
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 28 December 2006
108 m awayRef 200691NN49009
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 24 May 1979
117 m awayRef 1979910090408
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 22 November 1990
117 m awayRef 1990910091008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Ignis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200891NN15488 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 2008.