B869 crash in Highland on 25 May 2015 at 12:36 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B869 in Highland at 12:36 on Monday 25 May 2015. The 35-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2015
- Monday, 12:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.17984, longitude -5.30264, in the IV27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201591NE09267
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 869
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 120 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1997.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B869 in Highland, 7 June 1997
120 m awayRef 199791J006888
Serious
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B869 in Highland, 9 August 2007
1.3 km awayRef 200791NJ10632
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 3 March 1990
1.4 km awayRef 1990910050086
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 8 July 1987
1.6 km awayRef 1987910050087
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B869 in Highland, 14 August 1998
1.6 km awayRef 199891J009741
Serious
DS DS4 crash on the B869 in Highland, 3 August 2025
1.7 km awayRef 2025991629005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 201591NE09267 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 2015.