Serious A924 crash in Perth and Kinross on 15 September 2019 at 14:50 involving a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle crashed on the A924 in Perth and Kinross at 14:50 on Sunday 15 September 2019. The 36-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
- 15 Sep 2019
- Sunday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.71715, longitude -3.69154, in the PH16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019930877662
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 924
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 1994.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 23 November 1994
50 m awayRef 199493945916W
Slight
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 30 July 1980
92 m awayRef 19809380W1115
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 27 September 1986
215 m awayRef 19869386W1568
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A9245 in Perth and Kinross, 20 February 1992
233 m awayRef 199293920890W
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 7 September 2014
312 m awayRef 2014930000434
Slight
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 2 September 2011
481 m awayRef 2011930002778
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 1200)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2019930877662 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 2019.