Serious unclassified road crash in Angus DD8 on 15 August 2010 at 20:20 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Angus at 20:20 on Sunday 15 August 2010. The 46-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
- 15 Aug 2010
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.7248, longitude -2.84676, in the DD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010930002451
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 2 November 1986
54 m awayRef 19869386E1190
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 17 June 2002
54 m awayRef 2002930004107
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 17 July 1997
54 m awayRef 199793973193E
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 5 June 1986
54 m awayRef 19869386E0633
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 2 July 1993
251 m awayRef 199393933311E
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 1 May 2012
551 m awayRef 2012930001292
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2010930002451 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Angus road accident statistics for 2010.