Serious A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 11 April 2010 at 13:30 involving a BMW R 1200 motorcycle
A BMW R 1200 motorcycle and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 13:30 on Sunday 11 April 2010. The 36-year-old male rider of the BMW R 1200 motorcycle 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
- 11 Apr 2010
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW R 1200 and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44054, longitude -4.78596, in the FK20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097LB70504
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- 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, 139 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 1 January 1983
139 m awayRef 198397LB50201
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 11 December 2010
152 m awayRef 201097LB70612
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 23 July 2011
171 m awayRef 201197LB71107
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 2002
216 m awayRef 200297LB10607
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 20 June 2018
314 m awayRef 201897LB02506
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 29 July 2024
318 m awayRef 2024991473518
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW R 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R 1200)
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 201097LB70504 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Argyll and Bute road accident statistics for 2010.