Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV54 on 2 May 2015 at 13:49 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 13:49 on Saturday 2 May 2015. The 46-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 May 2015
- Saturday, 13:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.51608, longitude -5.66861, in the IV54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201591NP04591
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2011.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 4 June 2011
78 m awayRef 201191NP06122
Serious
Royal Enfield Interceptor crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 25 September 2023
130 m awayRef 2023991356242
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 17 July 2020
157 m awayRef 2020990968227
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A96 in Highland, 17 July 1995
964 m awayRef 199591N017876
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the M65 in South Ribble, 25 July 2000
1.1 km awayRef 200004C062000
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 6 May 2018
1.3 km awayRef 201891SNP3269
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
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 46, 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 201591NP04591 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.