Serious unclassified road crash in Na h-Eileanan Siar HS9 on 20 July 2019 at 02:50
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar at 02:50 on Saturday 20 July 2019. An 18-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 15-year-old male driver and a 14-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jul 2019
- Saturday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.93715, longitude -7.52527, in the HS9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Na h-Eileanan Siar
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019910861220
- Council area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles)
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 228 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 9 July 1992
228 m awayRef 1992910030158
Serious
Volvo C70 crash on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 1 April 2002
235 m awayRef 200291NH02496
Serious
Honda CG125B crash on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 1 November 2002
1.2 km awayRef 200291NH08010
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 15 August 2010
1.3 km awayRef 201091NH04311
Serious
Car crash on the A888 in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 27 March 1990
2.3 km awayRef 1990910030087
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Na h-Eileanan Siar, 20 April 2003
2.4 km awayRef 200391NH02705
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 15, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 18, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019910861220 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Na h-Eileanan Siar road accident statistics for 2019.