Serious A85 crash in Argyll and Bute on 1 June 2012 at 18:20 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle crashed on the A85 in Argyll and Bute at 18:20 on Friday 1 June 2012. The 21-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 2012
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.40582, longitude -4.92381, in the PA33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LB10106
- 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
- Dual 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2007.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 18 February 2007
20 m awayRef 200797LB11102
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 2 October 2018
28 m awayRef 201897LB00310
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 10 December 2000
30 m awayRef 200097LB70012
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 5 August 2013
43 m awayRef 201397LB00708
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 10 April 1991
61 m awayRef 199197LB02604
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Argyll and Bute, 17 July 1987
61 m awayRef 198797LB52407
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
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 201297LB10106 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 2012.