Serious unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire G68 on 27 January 2011 at 08:10 involving a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 08:10 on Thursday 27 January 2011. The 46-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jan 2011
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95313, longitude -4.00752, in the G68 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cumbernauld.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197NC04101
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 1998.
Slight
Porsche 944 crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 4 November 1998
78 m awayRef 199897NC00611
Serious
Car crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 29 May 1981
149 m awayRef 198197NC03305
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 22 June 1983
205 m awayRef 198397NC02506
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 20 August 2003
209 m awayRef 200397NC02108
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 27 December 2009
216 m awayRef 200997NC06112
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 2 March 2000
221 m awayRef 200097NC00203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX900)
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 201197NC04101 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 2011.