A822 crash in Perth and Kinross on 5 June 2016 at 11:40 involving a Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle crashed on the A822 in Perth and Kinross at 11:40 on Sunday 5 June 2016. The 48-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
- 5 Jun 2016
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSX 1300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.30143, longitude -3.83406, in the PH5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016930000357
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 822
- 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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 May 2006.
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 25 May 2006
10 m awayRef 2006930002042
Serious
Volkswagen 800 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 28 November 1997
20 m awayRef 199793975539W
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 22 October 2008
39 m awayRef 2008930004337
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 26 July 2015
68 m awayRef 2015930000426
Slight
Car crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 24 May 1985
84 m awayRef 19859385W0687
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 17 August 2010
84 m awayRef 2010930002456
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 1300
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,340 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 1300)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016930000357 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.