Serious A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 22 June 2000 at 14:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 14:50 on Thursday 22 June 2000. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2000
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38334, longitude -4.04549, in the PH6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000930001765
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 2002.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 29 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002930005658
Serious
Honda crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199993993657W
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 14 September 2008
30 m awayRef 2008930003839
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 31 May 2013
40 m awayRef 2013930000672
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 28 July 2006
50 m awayRef 2006930002821
Serious
Kawasaki ZR1000 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 27 May 2018
64 m awayRef 2018930000179
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2000930001765 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Perth and Kinross road accident statistics for 2000.