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A861 crash in Highland on 20 August 1979 at 13:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A861 in Highland at 13:15 on Monday 20 August 1979. An 8-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Aug 1979
Monday, 13:15
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.72381, longitude -5.77728, in the PH36 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Highland

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979910080293
Council area
Highland
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
861
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1986.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle combination

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 8, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 1979910080293 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 1979.