Unclassified road crash in Highland PH25 on 2 August 2013 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 15:00 on Friday 2 August 2013. The 63-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2013
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.25995, longitude -3.58517, in the PH25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201391NM07735
- 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
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 43%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 57%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 16 July 1983
25 m awayRef 1983910100138
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 28 August 2011
399 m awayRef 201191NM08766
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 September 1998
1.6 km awayRef 199891M009534
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 7 May 1982
2.0 km awayRef 1982910100113
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 19 January 1990
2.2 km awayRef 1990910100024
Slight
Car crash on the A939 in Highland, 29 June 1985
2.6 km awayRef 1985910100131
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 992 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 63, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201391NM07735 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 2013.