Serious A708 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 15 July 2012 at 11:02 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle crashed on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway at 11:02 on Sunday 15 July 2012. The 23-year-old male rider 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
- 15 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 11:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40451, longitude -3.30741, in the DG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012984121012
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 708
- 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2013.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 May 2013
42 m awayRef 2013984115913
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 July 1992
160 m awayRef 1992984033492
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 August 2017
272 m awayRef 2017984115017
Fatal
Audi Q2 crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 July 2020
291 m awayRef 2020990965913
Slight
Honda crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 July 2003
378 m awayRef 2003984032103
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A708 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 September 2008
403 m awayRef 2008984137208
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 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 2012984121012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 2012.