Serious A908 crash in Clackmannanshire on 23 May 2017 at 20:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Pulse XF 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire at 20:00 on Tuesday 23 May 2017. The 24-year-old male rider of the Pulse XF 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 2017
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Pulse XF 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14241, longitude -3.76823, in the FK10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961700616
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 908
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 November 2009.
Serious
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 11 November 2009
45 m awayRef 2009960902574
Slight
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 23 August 1997
45 m awayRef 199796E239186
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 19 August 2011
62 m awayRef 2011961101666
Slight
Taxi crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 10 December 1987
85 m awayRef 198796FA11115
Fatal
Volvo S80 crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 23 January 2020
101 m awayRef 2020990922594
Serious
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 6 November 1980
108 m awayRef 198096FA11043
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Pulse XF 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Pulse XF 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017961700616 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Clackmannanshire road accident statistics for 2017.