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Unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire G67 on 11 September 1979 at 00:05 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 00:05 on Tuesday 11 September 1979. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Sep 1979
Tuesday, 00:05
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94595, longitude -3.97109, in the G67 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197997NC01709
Council area
North Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 197997NC01709 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1979.