A924 crash in Perth and Kinross on 21 July 2012 at 17:30 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross at 17:30 on Saturday 21 July 2012. The 51-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2012
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.70437, longitude -3.73486, in the PH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pitlochry.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930002037
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 924
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 19 August 2011
54 m awayRef 2011930002301
Serious
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 20 December 2013
77 m awayRef 2013930000043
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 29 September 1979
80 m awayRef 19799379W1714
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 19 September 1992
80 m awayRef 199293924718W
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 16 October 1985
80 m awayRef 19859385W1676
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 13 May 2023
87 m awayRef 2023991306946
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2012930002037 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 2012.