Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV15 on 16 March 2012 at 19:05 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Highland at 19:05 on Friday 16 March 2012. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2012
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.59845, longitude -4.4326, in the IV15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dingwall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dingwall and Seaforth, Highland, IV15 9LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NE03555
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2007.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A862 in Highland, 5 March 2007
32 m awayRef 200791NE05260
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 12 April 1984
81 m awayRef 1984910060087
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 8 August 2012
126 m awayRef 201291NE10179
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 November 1998
136 m awayRef 199891E023346
Serious
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 28 June 2004
150 m awayRef 200491NE15457
Slight
Audi S4 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 26 October 2010
156 m awayRef 201091NE15550
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201291NE03555 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 2012.