Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV54 on 1 March 1991 at 23:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 23:15 on Friday 1 March 1991. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 1991
- Friday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.39062, longitude -5.50937, in the IV54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991910060083
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 316 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1999.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 20 July 1999
316 m awayRef 199991NE15048
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Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 14 February 1980
500 m awayRef 1980910060029
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 28 September 2000
600 m awayRef 200091NE23040
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 8 August 1992
762 m awayRef 1992910060244
Serious
Car crash on the A896 in Highland, 22 May 1980
762 m awayRef 1980910060135
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A896 in Highland, 4 June 1998
825 m awayRef 199891E010548
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, 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 1991910060083 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 1991.