Serious A85 crash in Stirling on 24 June 2012 at 14:45 involving a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A85 in Stirling at 14:45 on Sunday 24 June 2012. The 44-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR750 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
- 24 Jun 2012
- Sunday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZR750 and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.39094, longitude -4.21488, in the FK19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012961201142
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2010.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A85 in Stirling, 25 April 2010
At the same spotRef 2010961000794
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A85 in Stirling, 16 May 2012
14 m awayRef 2012961200883
Serious
BMW F 900 crash on the A85 in Stirling, 9 April 2023
16 m awayRef 2023991295017
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A85 in Stirling, 7 July 2013
17 m awayRef 2013961301209
Serious
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A85 in Stirling, 18 April 2015
21 m awayRef 2015961500659
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Stirling, 22 August 1986
42 m awayRef 198696JK07208
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZR750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZR750)
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 2012961201142 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 2012.