B8009 crash in Highland on 12 October 2011 at 00:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the B8009 in Highland at 00:30 on Wednesday 12 October 2011. The 43-year-old male driver and a 44-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2011
- Wednesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.29962, longitude -6.29425, in the IV47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201191NP11258
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8009
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2004.
Slight
Leyland DAF FTG 85CF crash on the A863 in Highland, 13 August 2004
42 m awayRef 200491NE19528
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A863 in Highland, 17 May 1997
124 m awayRef 199791E010260
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B8009 in Highland, 8 November 2019
224 m awayRef 2019910906245
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A863 in Highland, 22 April 2014
224 m awayRef 201491NP03864
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 5 December 1980
259 m awayRef 1980910070243
Fatal
Nissan Terrano crash on the A850 in Highland, 25 March 1998
633 m awayRef 199891E005415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201191NP11258 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.