A83 crash in Argyll and Bute on 13 July 2018 at 16:00 involving a Honda CBR900RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR900RR motorcycle crashed on the A83 in Argyll and Bute at 16:00 on Friday 13 July 2018. The 38-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
- 13 Jul 2018
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR900RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.2344, longitude -5.04643, in the PA25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897LB04307
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Argyll & Bute
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 83
- 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
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 June 2015.
Serious
Yamaha FJR 1300 crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 12 June 2015
4 m awayRef 201597LB02206
Serious
Honda crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 19 July 2015
7 m awayRef 201597LB02407
Serious
Volvo crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 5 September 2021
12 m awayRef 2021991083971
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 17 September 2017
15 m awayRef 201797LB02709
Fatal
Honda CB500S crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 11 September 2005
17 m awayRef 200597LB70109
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 18 July 2001
21 m awayRef 200197LB30607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR900RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR900RR)
- 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 201897LB04307 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 2018.