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Serious A970 crash in the Shetland Islands on 2 October 1998 at 16:15 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A970 in the Shetland Islands at 16:15 on Friday 2 October 1998. The 23-year-old female rider and a 63-year-old female pedestrian 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
2 Oct 1998
Friday, 16:15
Vehicles
1
Yamaha
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 60.06862, longitude -1.2257, in the ZE2 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in the Shetland Islands

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199891L004561
Council area
Shetland Islands
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
970
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 305 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    347 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Female, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199891L004561 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shetland Islands road accident statistics for 1998.