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Serious A960 crash in the Orkney Islands on 19 May 2016 at 14:00 involving a Citroen C1

A Citroen C1 crashed on the A960 in the Orkney Islands at 14:00 on Thursday 19 May 2016. The 79-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 May 2016
Thursday, 14:00
Vehicles
1
Citroen C1
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.95488, longitude -2.91197, in the KW15 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in the Orkney Islands

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201691NK01448
Council area
Orkney Islands
Police force
Northern
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
960
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Authorised person
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no 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
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Citroen C1

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Position at junction
    Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    79 years
    Engine capacity
    998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    20 to 30% least deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)

    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 201691NK01448 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.