Fatal A84 crash in Stirling on 27 October 2007 at 16:44 involving a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A84 in Stirling at 16:44 on Saturday 27 October 2007. The 58-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle was killed.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 27 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 16:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX1000 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.25368, longitude -4.28089, in the FK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007960702913
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 84
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A84 in Stirling, 31 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008960800877
Serious
Car crash on the A84 in Stirling, 21 April 2007
63 m awayRef 2007960701100
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A84 in Stirling, 3 November 1996
81 m awayRef 199696IK03006
Serious
Kawasaki ZX636 crash on the A84 in Stirling, 23 May 2004
117 m awayRef 200496E401325
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A84 in Stirling, 24 July 1995
170 m awayRef 199596IK03418
Serious
Car crash on the A84 in Stirling, 16 May 1983
230 m awayRef 198396IK03017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1000)
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 2007960702913 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 2007.