A971 crash in the Shetland Islands on 16 June 2016 at 08:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A971 in the Shetland Islands at 08:10 on Thursday 16 June 2016. The 19-year-old male driver 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
- 16 Jun 2016
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 60.25698, longitude -1.49903, 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
- 201691NL02519
- Council area
- Shetland Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 971
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 1.0 km away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 2008.
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 30 September 2008
1.0 km awayRef 200891NL05408
Slight
LDV 200 Series crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 30 March 2006
2.0 km awayRef 200691NL02081
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 26 May 2012
2.0 km awayRef 201291NL02870
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 26 July 2013
2.1 km awayRef 201391NL03882
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 1 August 2016
3.3 km awayRef 201691NL03088
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A971 in the Shetland Islands, 4 December 1996
3.5 km awayRef 199691L006826
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201691NL02519 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 2016.