Serious A926 crash in Perth and Kinross on 24 June 2017 at 14:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A926 in Perth and Kinross at 14:35 on Saturday 24 June 2017. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2017
- Saturday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61648, longitude -3.21224, in the PH11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017930000229
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 926
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 952
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, 62 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 September 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A926 in Perth and Kinross, 26 September 1984
62 m awayRef 19849384W1397
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A926 in Perth and Kinross, 11 June 1997
105 m awayRef 199793972614W
Slight
Car crash on the A926 in Perth and Kinross, 11 January 1985
116 m awayRef 19859385W0021
Slight
Car crash on the B952 in Perth and Kinross, 10 May 1991
206 m awayRef 199193912351W
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A926 in Perth and Kinross, 30 April 2000
206 m awayRef 2000930001395
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B954 in Perth and Kinross, 29 July 2005
287 m awayRef 2005930002845
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017930000229 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 2017.