A890 crash in Highland on 26 July 2011 at 16:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2011
- Tuesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.51152, longitude -5.22722, in the IV54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201191NP08260
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 890
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2009.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A890 in Highland, 10 November 2009
64 m awayRef 200991NP13303
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A890 in Highland, 23 July 2024
134 m awayRef 2024991471722
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A890 in Highland, 23 August 2000
369 m awayRef 200091NE19840
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A890 in Highland, 4 June 2006
1.4 km awayRef 200691NE13548
Serious
Car crash on the A890 in Highland, 30 June 2018
2.1 km awayRef 201891SNP1678
Fatal
Car crash on the A890 in Highland, 4 April 1989
2.1 km awayRef 1989910060109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201191NP08260 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.