Serious A884 crash in Highland on 1 July 1998 at 07:30 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on the A884 in Highland at 07:30 on Wednesday 1 July 1998. The 53-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jul 1998
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.5533, longitude -5.76676, in the PA80 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199891P005777
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 884
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 June 1993.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A884 in Highland, 3 June 1993
224 m awayRef 1993910080160
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A884 in Highland, 19 February 2014
1.3 km awayRef 201491NP01739
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 July 1994
1.8 km awayRef 1994910080222
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A9 in Highland, 6 February 1997
2.1 km awayRef 199791N003912
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A884 in Highland, 1 August 2012
3.6 km awayRef 201291NP08482
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A884 in Highland, 20 October 2010
3.7 km awayRef 201091NP11825
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 53, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 199891P005777 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 1998.