Serious A924 crash in Perth and Kinross on 12 August 2001 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A924 in Perth and Kinross at 19:00 on Sunday 12 August 2001. The 22-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
- 12 Aug 2001
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.74795, longitude -3.63515, in the PH10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001930002380
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 924
- 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 slight injury crash on 6 December 2001.
Slight
HGV crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 6 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001930003734
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 18 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199493944637W
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 27 September 1996
500 m awayRef 199693964424W
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 20 November 1992
990 m awayRef 199293926229W
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 13 April 2018
1.1 km awayRef 2018930000127
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 30 September 2017
1.2 km awayRef 201793STS0434
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, 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 2001930002380 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 2001.