Serious unclassified road crash in Highland IV3 on 21 September 2020 at 18:15 involving a KTM 125 Duke motorcycle
A KTM 125 Duke motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Highland at 18:15 on Monday 21 September 2020. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 2020
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- KTM 125 Duke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.45863, longitude -4.27539, in the IV3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Highland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990983079
- Council area
- Highland
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2025.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 21 January 2025
29 m awayRef 2025991544892
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 23 May 1993
227 m awayRef 1993910090330
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 6 November 1999
266 m awayRef 199991NN34791
Fatal
Honda CBR crash on the A82 in Highland, 29 June 2021
286 m awayRef 2021991061031
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Highland, 13 December 2010
290 m awayRef 201091NN41315
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Highland, 3 July 1988
300 m awayRef 1988910090439
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: KTM 125 Duke
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (KTM 125 Duke)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020990983079 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 2020.