Serious A966 crash in the Orkney Islands on 5 May 1994 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A966 in the Orkney Islands at 17:00 on Thursday 5 May 1994. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 1994
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994910010055
- Council area
- Orkney Islands
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 966
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 1994910010055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Orkney Islands road accident statistics for 1994.