A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 16 August 2015 at 18:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 18:20 on Sunday 16 August 2015. The 53-year-old male 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
- 16 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38589, longitude -4.08174, in the PH6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000427
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 July 2000.
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 July 2000
81 m awayRef 2000930002010
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 September 2006
112 m awayRef 2006930003753
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 14 October 1992
143 m awayRef 199293925279W
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 September 1983
174 m awayRef 19839383W1360
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 June 2013
194 m awayRef 2013930000691
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 21 August 1983
204 m awayRef 19839383W1276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015930000427 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.