Serious B885 crash in Highland on 25 June 1992 at 22:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B885 in Highland at 22:30 on Thursday 25 June 1992. The 23-year-old male rider and a 22-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jun 1992
- Thursday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.38398, longitude -6.35451, in the IV56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992910070113
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 885
- 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, 110 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B885 in Highland, 27 July 2002
110 m awayRef 200291NE18202
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the B885 in Highland, 29 August 2015
995 m awayRef 201591NP09810
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B885 in Highland, 5 April 2018
1.8 km awayRef 201891NP01785
Serious
Car crash on the A857 in Highland, 3 March 1988
2.1 km awayRef 1988910030070
Slight
Car crash on the B855 in Highland, 29 August 1987
2.5 km awayRef 1987910070189
Slight
Car crash on the A863 in Highland, 14 February 2019
2.5 km awayRef 201991SNP1035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, 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 1992910070113 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.