Unclassified road crash in Highland IV2 on 8 February 2012 at 18:30 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Highland at 18:30 on Wednesday 8 February 2012. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.46059, longitude -4.20334, in the IV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Millburn, Highland, IV2 4QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NN04086
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 19 October 1984
28 m awayRef 1984910090746
Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 24 October 2008
50 m awayRef 200891NN37195
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B853 in Highland, 3 December 2004
58 m awayRef 200491NN40798
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 12 March 2015
65 m awayRef 201591NN06983
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 30 October 2003
72 m awayRef 200391NN38584
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 18 March 2014
106 m awayRef 201491NN07480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 201291NN04086 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.