Serious A82 crash in Stirling on 10 July 1997 at 21:00 involving a Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle
A Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle crashed on the A82 in Stirling at 21:00 on Thursday 10 July 1997. A 29-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 37-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki Z550
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.43038, longitude -4.70212, in the FK20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E918602
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2020.
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A82 in Stirling, 6 December 2020
9 m awayRef 2020991004960
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A82 in Stirling, 2 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199996E854669
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A82 in Stirling, 6 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199796E922144
Slight
Car crash on the A82 in Stirling, 20 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200296E200776
Fatal
Peugeot 306 crash on the A82 in Stirling, 20 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200296E200789
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A82 in Stirling, 3 October 2002
14 m awayRef 200296E202358
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki Z550
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 553 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki Z550)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki Z550)
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 199796E918602 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 1997.