Serious A828 crash in Argyll and Bute on 3 February 2012 at 10:45 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle crashed on the A828 in Argyll and Bute at 10:45 on Friday 3 February 2012. A 45-year-old female passenger 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
- 3 Feb 2012
- Friday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.52098, longitude -5.32998, in the PA37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LB10302
- 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
- 828
- 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, 194 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 1986.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 19 August 1986
194 m awayRef 198697LB53708
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 1 September 2016
209 m awayRef 201697LB00409
Slight
Car crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 16 March 1980
282 m awayRef 198097LB53403
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 30 March 1991
340 m awayRef 199197LB01903
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 15 June 1990
440 m awayRef 199097LB01806
Slight
Car crash on the A828 in Argyll and Bute, 3 May 1986
506 m awayRef 198697LB50305
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 201297LB10302 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.