A968 crash in the Shetland Islands on 13 April 2014 at 00:50 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the A968 in the Shetland Islands at 00:50 on Sunday 13 April 2014. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2014
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 60.38252, longitude -1.26382, 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
- 201491NL01619
- Council area
- Shetland Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 968
- 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 with 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 634 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A968 in the Shetland Islands, 17 January 2018
634 m awayRef 201891NL00183
Slight
HGV crash on the A968 in the Shetland Islands, 5 August 2011
680 m awayRef 201191NL04321
Slight
Car crash on the A968 in the Shetland Islands, 2 December 2011
982 m awayRef 201191NL06690
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A968 in the Shetland Islands, 7 June 2014
1.3 km awayRef 201491NL02654
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A968 in the Shetland Islands, 5 May 2016
1.3 km awayRef 201691NL01827
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A970 in the Shetland Islands, 13 February 1997
2.3 km awayRef 199791L000748
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- 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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- 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 201491NL01619 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 2014.