Serious A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 8 September 2005 at 16:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 16:50 on Thursday 8 September 2005. The 20-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 2005
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.3997, longitude -3.43692, in the PH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Perth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Perth City Centre, Perth and Kinross, PH1 5QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005930003354
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 989
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 October 2006.
Serious
Porsche Boxster crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 23 October 2006
22 m awayRef 2006930003936
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 6 March 2025
25 m awayRef 2025991562004
Slight
Lorry crash on the A912 in Perth and Kinross, 7 October 2005
28 m awayRef 2005930003696
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 December 1988
32 m awayRef 19889388W1982
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 24 September 1990
32 m awayRef 199093902818W
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 March 1989
32 m awayRef 19899389W0384
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (50cc 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 2005930003354 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.