A99 crash in Highland on 17 June 2017 at 17:12 involving a Ford S-Max
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2017
- Saturday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.33306, longitude -3.19062, in the KW3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201791NJ03489
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 99
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 154 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 September 2006.
Fatal
Kawasaki crash on the A99 in Highland, 12 September 2006
154 m awayRef 200691NJ12253
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A99 in Highland, 27 August 2003
186 m awayRef 200391NJ11870
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A99 in Highland, 11 September 2018
228 m awayRef 201891SNJ1069
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 5 January 1990
302 m awayRef 1990910040005
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A99 in Highland, 2 August 2017
310 m awayRef 201791NJ04424
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on the A99 in Highland, 29 August 2012
342 m awayRef 201291NJ11628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford S-Max)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201791NJ03489 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 2017.