A82 crash in Highland on 12 June 2016 at 13:00 involving a Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A82 in Highland at 13:00 on Sunday 12 June 2016. The 47-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2016
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSX 1300 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.95623, longitude -4.91061, in the PH34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201691NP05750
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2016.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A82 in Highland, 19 May 2016
81 m awayRef 201691NP04668
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A82 in Highland, 19 August 1980
168 m awayRef 1980910080312
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Highland, 12 July 1998
168 m awayRef 199891P006139
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Highland, 17 December 2005
168 m awayRef 200591NP10466
Fatal
Audi A3 crash on the A82 in Highland, 25 October 2017
381 m awayRef 201791NP09811
Slight
Volkswagen Arteon crash on the A82 in Highland, 18 September 2024
391 m awayRef 2024991493269
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 1300
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 1300)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 201691NP05750 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 2016.