B870 crash in Highland on 8 August 2017 at 10:50 involving an agricultural vehicle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Agricultural vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.53623, longitude -3.55743, in the KW14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201791NJ04534
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 870
- 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1.4 km away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2015.
Slight
Lorry crash on the B870 in Highland, 29 April 2015
1.4 km awayRef 201591NJ02728
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B870 in Highland, 8 July 1996
1.5 km awayRef 199691J007737
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 February 1997
1.8 km awayRef 199791J002296
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 26 December 1996
1.9 km awayRef 199691J015347
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A9 in Highland, 12 February 2002
2.7 km awayRef 200291NJ02097
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the B874 in Highland, 19 August 2000
2.7 km awayRef 200091NJ11258
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, agricultural vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Agricultural vehicle)
- 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 201791NJ04534 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.