Serious unclassified road crash in Highland KW7 on 19 July 2019 at 14:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 14:40 on Friday 19 July 2019. The 65-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2019
- Friday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.18433, longitude -3.50099, in the KW7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019910861445
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 9
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2006.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A9 in Highland, 22 February 2006
8 m awayRef 200691NJ02558
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A9 in Highland, 8 March 1983
36 m awayRef 1983910040065
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Highland, 21 March 1980
36 m awayRef 1980910040079
Serious
Lorry crash on the A9 in Highland, 21 June 1991
112 m awayRef 1991910040155
Slight
Scania crash on the A9 in Highland, 21 March 1993
112 m awayRef 1993910040093
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A9 in Highland, 18 May 2013
131 m awayRef 201391NJ07417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 65, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2019910861445 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 2019.