Unclassified road crash in Highland PH33 on 18 February 2017 at 09:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 09:50 on Saturday 18 February 2017. The 31-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.8184, longitude -5.11107, in the PH33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fort William.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201791NP01413
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2002.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 9 October 2002
13 m awayRef 200291NP09542
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 April 2002
14 m awayRef 200291NP03641
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A82 in Highland, 19 August 1996
32 m awayRef 199691P008804
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 20 January 1982
32 m awayRef 1982910080019
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Highland, 3 November 1979
76 m awayRef 1979910080393
Serious
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 20 November 1980
76 m awayRef 1980910080414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201791NP01413 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.