Serious A913 crash in Perth and Kinross on 13 April 2008 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A913 in Perth and Kinross at 16:00 on Sunday 13 April 2008. The 32-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Apr 2008
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.33919, longitude -3.29374, in the PH2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008930002052
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 913
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 17 December 2005
22 m awayRef 2005930000176
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 8 December 2004
36 m awayRef 2004930005248
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 30 December 1991
45 m awayRef 199193917170W
Serious
Audi 80 crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 10 August 1996
89 m awayRef 199693963755W
Serious
Car crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 22 November 1999
89 m awayRef 1999930000742
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A913 in Perth and Kinross, 18 February 1999
89 m awayRef 199993990889W
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, 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 2008930002052 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 2008.