A887 crash in Highland on 22 May 2014 at 16:06 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A887 in Highland at 16:06 on Thursday 22 May 2014. A 67-year-old female passenger in the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2014
- Thursday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.14616, longitude -4.95856, in the IV63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201491NN14067
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 887
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 87
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2017.
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on the A87 in Highland, 23 July 2017
5 m awayRef 201791NN18261
Slight
Car crash on the A887 in Highland, 1 February 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991549255
Slight
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the A87 in Highland, 28 September 2014
6 m awayRef 201491NN27934
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on the A87 in Highland, 1 March 2024
6 m awayRef 2024991415945
Serious
Car crash on the A887 in Highland, 17 August 2014
9 m awayRef 201491NN23588
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A87 in Highland, 10 August 2024
9 m awayRef 2024991478224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- 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 201491NN14067 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 2014.