Serious A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 2 January 2015 at 14:18 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 14:18 on Friday 2 January 2015. 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
- 2 Jan 2015
- Friday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38674, longitude -4.08629, in the PH6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000180
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- 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, 99 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 4 August 1981
99 m awayRef 19819381W1152
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 September 1983
125 m awayRef 19839383W1360
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 July 2000
218 m awayRef 2000930002010
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 4 December 1993
236 m awayRef 199393936210W
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 16 August 2015
297 m awayRef 2015930000427
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 September 2006
398 m awayRef 2006930003753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2015930000180 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Perth and Kinross road accident statistics for 2015.