A890 crash in Highland on 30 July 2012 at 17:11 involving a Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2012
- Monday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ER650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.48634, longitude -5.3143, in the IV54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201291NP08412
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 890
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2015.
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A890 in Highland, 9 July 2015
14 m awayRef 201591NP07683
Slight
Car crash on the A890 in Highland, 2 August 2005
14 m awayRef 200591NE18790
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A890 in Highland, 24 November 2005
14 m awayRef 200591NE29043
Slight
HGV crash on the A890 in Highland, 12 February 2018
34 m awayRef 201891SNP0543
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1200 crash on the A890 in Highland, 4 June 2012
36 m awayRef 201291NP06146
Slight
BMW R Series crash on the A890 in Highland, 18 September 2024
40 m awayRef 2024991506628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER650)
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 201291NP08412 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.