A971 crash in the Shetland Islands on 26 May 2012 at 19:45 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the A971 in the Shetland Islands at 19:45 on Saturday 26 May 2012. The 29-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2012
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 60.24417, longitude -1.52368, in the ZE2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Shetland Islands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NL02870
- Council area
- Shetland Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 971
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 144 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2006.
Slight
LDV 200 Series crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 30 March 2006
144 m awayRef 200691NL02081
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 30 September 2008
993 m awayRef 200891NL05408
Slight
Car crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 16 June 2016
2.0 km awayRef 201691NL02519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 1 August 2016
2.7 km awayRef 201691NL03088
Fatal
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 17 March 2023
3.4 km awayRef 2023991288086
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 26 July 2013
3.7 km awayRef 201391NL03882
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 201291NL02870 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shetland Islands road accident statistics for 2012.