A846 crash in Argyll and Bute on 10 June 2015 at 17:40 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the A846 in Argyll and Bute at 17:40 on Wednesday 10 June 2015. The 28-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
- 10 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76435, longitude -6.26105, in the PA43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597LB01906
- 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
- 846
- 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1993.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 10 March 1993
44 m awayRef 199397LC01203
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 25 November 1992
60 m awayRef 199297LC01411
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 30 November 1991
159 m awayRef 199197LC03111
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 1 May 1998
195 m awayRef 199897LB30105
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 6 May 2001
206 m awayRef 200197LB20405
Slight
Car crash on the A846 in Argyll and Bute, 18 September 2007
299 m awayRef 200797LB21609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 201597LB01906 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 2015.