A839 crash in Highland on 5 June 2015 at 15:45 involving a Triumph Daytona 675 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2015
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Daytona 675
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.01771, longitude -4.35755, in the IV27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201591NE10085
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 839
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 482 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A839 in Highland, 16 November 1995
482 m awayRef 199591J007377
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A839 in Highland, 9 July 2014
574 m awayRef 201491NJ07885
Serious
Van crash on the A839 in Highland, 13 October 1987
778 m awayRef 1987910050159
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A839 in Highland, 6 January 1979
975 m awayRef 1979910050003
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 5 May 2001
1.0 km awayRef 200191NJ05741
Slight
Car crash on the A839 in Highland, 12 November 1988
1.1 km awayRef 1988910050183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Daytona 675
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Daytona 675)
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 201591NE10085 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.