Serious A82 crash in Highland on 30 January 2022 at 16:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3, a car and a BMW X3 were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 16:15 on Sunday 30 January 2022. A 69-year-old female passenger in the Audi A3 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jan 2022
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A3 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.14352, longitude -4.68106, in the PH32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022991138529
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 27 May 2006
13 m awayRef 200691NN19211
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A82 in Highland, 24 July 2005
55 m awayRef 200591NN25111
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A82 in Highland, 6 July 2009
67 m awayRef 200991NN22618
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Highland, 14 August 1999
67 m awayRef 199991NN24672
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A82 in Highland, 10 July 1999
67 m awayRef 199991NN20552
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 7 September 1992
67 m awayRef 1992910090760
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW X3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2022991138529 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 2022.