Serious A822 crash in Perth and Kinross on 13 July 2008 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A822 in Perth and Kinross at 16:15 on Sunday 13 July 2008. The 39-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.43586, longitude -3.76819, in the PH1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008930003132
- 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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 24 August 2008
10 m awayRef 2008930003667
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 10 September 2006
14 m awayRef 2006930003442
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 20 August 2023
15 m awayRef 2023991343594
Serious
Honda crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 22 May 2016
30 m awayRef 2016930000268
Slight
Car crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 15 August 2001
76 m awayRef 2001930002255
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross, 8 July 2013
204 m awayRef 2013930000845
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 39, 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 2008930003132 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.