A85 crash in Stirling on 11 July 1992 at 17:30 involving an Austin Metro
A motorcycle and an Austin Metro were involved in a crash on the A85 in Stirling at 17:30 on Saturday 11 July 1992. The 33-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 25-year-old female driver of the Austin Metro were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 1992
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.39197, longitude -4.61562, in the FK20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199296JK06196
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A85 in Stirling, 1 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199796E916283
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A85 in Stirling, 9 May 1997
30 m awayRef 199796E913324
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Stirling, 14 September 1996
32 m awayRef 199696JK06631
Slight
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A85 in Stirling, 22 May 2013
55 m awayRef 2013961300916
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A85 in Stirling, 23 June 2007
58 m awayRef 2007960701698
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Stirling, 22 February 1985
72 m awayRef 198596JK06106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
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 199296JK06196 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 1992.