Unclassified road crash in Highland PH22 on 20 July 2021 at 15:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Highland at 15:15 on Tuesday 20 July 2021. The 30-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 49-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2021
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.17128, longitude -3.7347, in the PH22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021991068260
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 218 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2002.
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on a C road in Highland, 21 July 2002
218 m awayRef 200291NM10477
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Highland, 20 May 1980
230 m awayRef 1980910100135
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 31 August 1979
509 m awayRef 1979910100352
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Highland, 27 February 1983
523 m awayRef 1983910100038
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Highland, 21 September 1983
557 m awayRef 1983910100194
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on a C road in Highland, 9 August 2007
560 m awayRef 200791NM10163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2021991068260 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 2021.