Unclassified road crash in Highland IV18 on 23 February 2011 at 16:05 involving a Mitsubishi Lancer
A Mitsubishi Lancer and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 16:05 on Wednesday 23 February 2011. The 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2011
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Lancer and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.69939, longitude -4.17453, in the IV18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201191NE02489
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 1999.
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Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 16 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199991NE17285
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 16 August 1983
141 m awayRef 1983910120206
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 10 September 1979
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 16 January 1992
200 m awayRef 1992910120013
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 20 October 2005
200 m awayRef 200591NE26047
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 30 April 2014
211 m awayRef 201491NE05033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Lancer
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 201191NE02489 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 2011.