B801 crash in Highland on 5 August 1992 at 11:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B801 in Highland at 11:30 on Wednesday 5 August 1992. The 15-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1992
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.45941, longitude -5.05453, in the IV27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992910050140
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 801
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 801
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 129 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2015.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B801 in Highland, 26 May 2015
129 m awayRef 201591NE09369
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 3 February 1995
224 m awayRef 1995910040019
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the B801 in Highland, 16 September 2025
266 m awayRef 2025991643545
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the B801 in Highland, 21 June 2014
352 m awayRef 201491NJ07173
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 24 February 1990
361 m awayRef 1990910050035
Serious
Car crash on the A838 in Highland, 8 September 1985
400 m awayRef 1985910050121
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 15, 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 1992910050140 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 1992.