Serious A924 crash in Perth and Kinross on 20 May 2016 at 17:30 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A motorcycle and a Citroen Berlingo were involved in a crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross at 17:30 on Friday 20 May 2016. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 20 May 2016
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.75392, longitude -3.58416, in the PH10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016930000270
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 924
- 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, 192 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 June 2018.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 8 June 2018
192 m awayRef 2018930000198
Slight
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 6 September 2020
358 m awayRef 2020990979062
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 5 April 2025
954 m awayRef 2025991574096
Slight
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 16 November 1984
1.0 km awayRef 19849384W1730
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 19 October 2003
1.1 km awayRef 2003930004027
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 18 August 1994
1.2 km awayRef 199493944203W
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
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
- Overturned
- 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
Vehicle 2: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 2016930000270 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 2016.