A9 crash in Highland on 3 August 2015 at 18:59 involving a Renault Captur
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2015
- Monday, 18:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Captur and Hyundai i40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.36474, longitude -4.01879, in the IV13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201591NN21454
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 February 2020.
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A9 in Highland, 7 February 2020
21 m awayRef 2020990948152
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A9 in Highland, 9 May 2001
38 m awayRef 200191NN15435
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the A9 in Highland, 20 February 2002
41 m awayRef 200291NN06045
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 15 October 1979
75 m awayRef 1979910090875
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 9 October 1979
75 m awayRef 1979910090850
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 4 October 1982
104 m awayRef 1982910090731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Captur
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Captur)
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 201591NN21454 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 2015.