Serious A817 crash in Argyll and Bute on 9 May 2016 at 11:55 involving a Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle crashed on the A817 in Argyll and Bute at 11:55 on Monday 9 May 2016. The 34-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
- 9 May 2016
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07628, longitude -4.77466, in the G84 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697LA02205
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 817
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 2006.
Serious
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 2 September 2006
4 m awayRef 200697LA00709
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 17 December 2022
15 m awayRef 2022991254779
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 15 October 2000
24 m awayRef 200097LA02410
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 24 October 2000
38 m awayRef 200097LA03910
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 10 April 2010
68 m awayRef 201097LA02904
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A817 in Argyll and Bute, 20 March 2016
77 m awayRef 201697LA04103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R6)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 201697LA02205 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 2016.