A965 crash in the Orkney Islands on 13 May 2016 at 18:20 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV hit a pedestrian on the A965 in the Orkney Islands at 18:20 on Friday 13 May 2016. A 19-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 13 May 2016
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.98352, longitude -3.24804, in the KW16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Orkney Islands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201691NK01397
- Council area
- Orkney Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 965
- 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
- 964
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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 4 July 2001
22 m awayRef 200191NK03536
Slight
Car crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 4 June 2019
24 m awayRef 201991NK00728
Slight
Car crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 1 March 2019
34 m awayRef 201991SNK2175
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 17 October 2011
68 m awayRef 201191NK05099
Slight
Iveco crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 21 February 2018
315 m awayRef 201891SNK3374
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A965 in the Orkney Islands, 27 June 2005
337 m awayRef 200591NK03231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 201691NK01397 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Orkney Islands road accident statistics for 2016.