B8007 crash in Highland on 25 March 2017 at 11:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B8007 in Highland at 11:50 on Saturday 25 March 2017. The 46-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.68969, longitude -5.98741, in the PH36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201791NP02349
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8007
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 421 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B8007 in Highland, 13 February 1983
421 m awayRef 1983910080027
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B8007 in Highland, 11 December 2005
1.7 km awayRef 200591NP10326
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B8007 in Highland, 18 February 2005
1.8 km awayRef 200591NP01354
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B8007 in Highland, 23 November 2016
2.6 km awayRef 201691NP11310
Serious
Royal Enfield Himalayan crash on the B8007 in Highland, 7 September 2025
3.3 km awayRef 2025991638435
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the B8007 in Highland, 24 June 2018
4.2 km awayRef 201891SNP1951
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 46, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201791NP02349 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 2017.