A908 crash in Clackmannanshire on 22 August 2008 at 18:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A908 in Clackmannanshire at 18:00 on Friday 22 August 2008. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2008
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14064, longitude -3.76974, in the FK10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960802117
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 908
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 May 1989.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 23 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198996FA11066
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 15 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200096E812197
Slight
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 21 April 1988
36 m awayRef 198896FA11049
Serious
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 10 April 1984
36 m awayRef 198496FA11041
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 27 April 2009
45 m awayRef 2009960901000
Slight
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 5 October 1988
71 m awayRef 198896FA11121
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
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 2008960802117 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Clackmannanshire road accident statistics for 2008.