Unclassified road crash in Argyll and Bute PA70 on 2 July 2012 at 17:00 involving a Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle
A Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Argyll and Bute at 17:00 on Monday 2 July 2012. The 66-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet road with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2012
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki AN 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.41766, longitude -5.84051, in the PA70 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LB10107
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1.5 km away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1998.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 23 May 1998
1.5 km awayRef 199897LB11205
Slight
Car crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 20 February 1981
2.2 km awayRef 198197LB50902
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 14 August 1981
2.3 km awayRef 198197LB53108
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 16 October 1996
2.4 km awayRef 199697LB01410
Slight
Car crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 20 November 1984
3.1 km awayRef 198497LB51011
Serious
Van crash on the A849 in Argyll and Bute, 8 April 1997
3.3 km awayRef 199797LB01004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki AN 400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 385 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 66, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki AN 400)
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 201297LB10107 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.