A822 crash in Perth and Kinross on 6 July 2003 at 12:40 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the A822 in Perth and Kinross at 12:40 on Sunday 6 July 2003. The 44-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2003
- Sunday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46022, longitude -3.79886, in the PH8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003930002928
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 822
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 166 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1998.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 15 May 1998
166 m awayRef 199893981957W
Slight
HGV crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 4 February 2003
198 m awayRef 2003930002284
Serious
Citroen C25 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 15 February 1994
362 m awayRef 199493940677W
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 1 August 2014
659 m awayRef 2014930000418
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 7 May 1997
663 m awayRef 199793972095W
Fatal
Car crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 14 September 2001
678 m awayRef 2001930002589
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2003930002928 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 2003.