Serious A712 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 4 May 2017 at 13:55 involving a Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle crashed on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:55 on Thursday 4 May 2017. The 49-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
- 4 May 2017
- Thursday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XT 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.07501, longitude -3.97079, in the DG7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017982104717
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 712
- 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, 98 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2005.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 November 2005
98 m awayRef 2005982119005
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 August 2006
123 m awayRef 2006982114706
Slight
Car crash on the A709 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 December 1999
231 m awayRef 1999983060699
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 February 1997
300 m awayRef 1997982003997
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 June 2020
405 m awayRef 2020990956588
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 December 1993
881 m awayRef 1993982029093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XT 600
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
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 660 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XT 600)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017982104717 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 2017.