Serious A82 crash in Highland on 10 July 2012 at 09:41 involving a Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 09:41 on Tuesday 10 July 2012. The 60-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle was seriously injured and a 60-year-old female passenger on the Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 09:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Harley-Davidson FLHR and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.48276, longitude -4.23053, in the IV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Central, Highland, IV1 1RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NN21601
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 4 February 2011
At the same spotRef 201191NN03981
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 6 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200591NN26684
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A82 in Highland, 1 April 2008
14 m awayRef 200891NN10569
Serious
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 15 November 2011
14 m awayRef 201191NN39376
Serious
MG 3 crash on the A82 in Highland, 30 April 2025
20 m awayRef 2025991587140
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 26 February 2003
22 m awayRef 200391NN06833
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson FLHR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLHR)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLHR)
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 201291NN21601 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 2012.