Unclassified road crash in Highland IV2 on 13 August 2012 at 15:30 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 15:30 on Monday 13 August 2012. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2012
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.45858, longitude -4.21572, in the IV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverness. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverness Millburn, Highland, IV2 4QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NN25485
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 December 1983
36 m awayRef 1983910090925
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 25 May 1991
36 m awayRef 1991910090374
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 3 July 2005
41 m awayRef 200591NN22345
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 June 1997
124 m awayRef 199791N018572
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 March 1982
124 m awayRef 1982910090184
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 9 May 1987
124 m awayRef 1987910090429
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 201291NN25485 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.