Serious A82 crash in Highland on 2 April 2016 at 10:00 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 10:00 on Saturday 2 April 2016. A 34-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Fabia was seriously injured and a 13-year-old male passenger in the Skoda Fabia and an 8-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Fabia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Apr 2016
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.22648, longitude -4.57183, in the IV63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201691NN08010
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2012.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A82 in Highland, 14 June 2012
7 m awayRef 201291NN18947
Serious
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 29 October 1982
35 m awayRef 1982910090811
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A82 in Highland, 17 May 1979
101 m awayRef 1979910090384
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A82 in Highland, 30 December 2000
245 m awayRef 200091NN42472
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 9 April 1988
255 m awayRef 1988910090266
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the A82 in Highland, 21 July 2016
263 m awayRef 201691NN17987
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 201691NN08010 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 2016.