Serious A9 crash in Highland on 16 June 2018 at 11:42 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A9 in Highland at 11:42 on Saturday 16 June 2018. The 52-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2018
- Saturday, 11:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.07313, longitude -3.77412, in the KW8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201891SNE1632
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 27 January 1990
52 m awayRef 1990910050015
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 31 December 1980
128 m awayRef 1980910050197
Slight
Lorry crash on the A9 in Highland, 18 August 1988
224 m awayRef 1988910050126
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A9 in Highland, 15 December 2008
244 m awayRef 200891NJ16766
Serious
ERF crash on the A9 in Highland, 21 December 1993
262 m awayRef 1993910050185
Slight
Volvo crash on the A9 in Highland, 20 May 1997
262 m awayRef 199791J005978
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 201891SNE1632 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 2018.