A714 crash in South Ayrshire on 12 July 2012 at 17:30 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle crashed on the A714 in South Ayrshire at 17:30 on Thursday 12 July 2012. The 37-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.09163, longitude -4.7023, in the KA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297UD02007
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 714
- 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
- 43%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 57%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 220 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 May 2002.
Fatal
Car crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 18 May 2002
220 m awayRef 200297UD70305
Slight
Car crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 18 May 1989
250 m awayRef 198997RA21205
Slight
Van crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 31 October 1985
250 m awayRef 198597RC02510
Slight
Austin 1100 crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 1 January 1990
269 m awayRef 199097RA20101
Slight
Lorry crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 12 November 1992
269 m awayRef 199297RA21311
Slight
Lorry crash on the A714 in South Ayrshire, 8 October 2003
280 m awayRef 200397UD20510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 201297UD02007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2012.