Serious A830 crash in Highland on 26 July 2011 at 20:30 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A830 in Highland at 20:30 on Tuesday 26 July 2011. The 27-year-old female rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jul 2011
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.84518, longitude -5.09891, in the PH33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201191NP08252
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 830
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 8004
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 2017.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A830 in Highland, 27 May 2017
10 m awayRef 201791NP04338
Slight
Car crash on the A830 in Highland, 25 July 1980
10 m awayRef 1980910080219
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A830 in Highland, 10 June 1992
10 m awayRef 1992910080244
Serious
Car crash on the A830 in Highland, 18 April 1988
10 m awayRef 1988910080101
Slight
Car crash on the A830 in Highland, 6 January 1981
10 m awayRef 1981910080004
Slight
Car crash on the A830 in Highland, 14 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984910080290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 201191NP08252 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 2011.