Unclassified road crash in Highland IV2 on 4 November 2011 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 18:30 on Friday 4 November 2011. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2011
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.47882, longitude -4.14672, 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
- 201191NN38261
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 17 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201291NN15215
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 March 2004
57 m awayRef 200491NN09378
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 4 February 1989
102 m awayRef 1989910090140
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 1 March 2005
168 m awayRef 200591NN06732
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 17 December 1989
180 m awayRef 1989910090977
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 October 1987
180 m awayRef 1987910090819
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201191NN38261 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.