A9 crash in Highland on 16 December 2013 at 20:10 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A9 in Highland at 20:10 on Monday 16 December 2013. The 62-year-old male driver and a 56-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2013
- Monday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.36979, longitude -4.02586, in the IV13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201391NN37569
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- 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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 127 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2013.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A9 in Highland, 6 November 2013
127 m awayRef 201391NN33313
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A9 in Highland, 10 December 2009
147 m awayRef 200991NN41941
Fatal
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 25 August 1984
147 m awayRef 1984910090570
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A9 in Highland, 22 May 2002
150 m awayRef 200291NN18131
Slight
Scania crash on the A9 in Highland, 7 April 2008
183 m awayRef 200891NN11214
Fatal
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 11 July 1987
197 m awayRef 1987910090419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 201391NN37569 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 2013.