Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV16 on 15 August 2019 at 13:00 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Highland at 13:00 on Thursday 15 August 2019. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2019
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66367, longitude -4.33339, in the IV16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019910869719
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 167 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2001.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 14 January 2001
167 m awayRef 200191NE00949
Slight
Car crash on the B817 in Highland, 25 July 1983
203 m awayRef 1983910120174
Slight
Car crash on the B817 in Highland, 18 March 1983
203 m awayRef 1983910120085
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the B817 in Highland, 25 January 1991
203 m awayRef 1991910120040
Serious
Car crash on the B817 in Highland, 20 May 1989
246 m awayRef 1989910120187
Fatal
Honda NS125F crash on the B817 in Highland, 7 May 1994
249 m awayRef 1994910064105
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019910869719 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 2019.