A826 crash in Perth and Kinross on 23 July 2005 at 14:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A826 in Perth and Kinross at 14:45 on Saturday 23 July 2005. 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
- 23 Jul 2005
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.59679, longitude -3.83645, in the PH15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005930002782
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 826
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2005.
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 14 August 2005
10 m awayRef 2005930003029
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 4 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008930003030
Slight
Van crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 27 December 1990
41 m awayRef 199093904862W
Slight
Car crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 30 January 1988
125 m awayRef 19889388W0186
Slight
Van crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 15 October 1983
214 m awayRef 19839383W1633
Serious
Honda crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 14 May 2016
240 m awayRef 2016930000302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2005930002782 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 2005.