A863 crash in Highland on 23 June 2023 at 14:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 2023
- Friday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.39156, longitude -6.48129, in the IV56 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023991389082
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 863
- 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, 266 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 August 1992.
Serious
Car crash on the A863 in Highland, 25 August 1992
266 m awayRef 1992910070197
Fatal
Car crash on the A863 in Highland, 19 September 1979
365 m awayRef 1979910070221
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A863 in Highland, 23 May 2009
769 m awayRef 200991NP05572
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A863 in Highland, 31 March 2004
844 m awayRef 200491NE07519
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 14 July 2003
974 m awayRef 200391NE17126
Slight
Volkswagen 1200 crash on the A863 in Highland, 7 October 2002
1.4 km awayRef 200291NE24610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i10)
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 2023991389082 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 2023.