B892 crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar on 27 June 2012 at 23:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 23:30 on Wednesday 27 June 2012. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jun 2012
- Wednesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.47982, longitude -7.35343, in the HS7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Na h-Eileanan Siar
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NH03350
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles)
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 892
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2022.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 8 March 2022
15 m awayRef 2022991151527
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 29 January 2021
20 m awayRef 2021991018146
Serious
Car crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 10 July 1987
732 m awayRef 1987910030168
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 26 December 2007
826 m awayRef 200791NH07730
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 27 September 1993
1.0 km awayRef 1993910030230
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B892 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 28 October 2010
1.1 km awayRef 201091NH05673
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
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
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201291NH03350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Na h-Eileanan Siar road accident statistics for 2012.