B730 crash in East Ayrshire on 5 April 1981 at 23:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B730 in East Ayrshire at 23:50 on Sunday 5 April 1981. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 1981
- Sunday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46413, longitude -4.47218, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198197RB00604
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 730
- Road type
- Single 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 28 December 1983
100 m awayRef 198397RB05212
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 13 August 2002
100 m awayRef 200297UD70408
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 24 October 2025
191 m awayRef 2025991658796
Slight
Van crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 14 December 1979
283 m awayRef 197997RA05012
Fatal
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 31 December 1983
412 m awayRef 198397RB05712
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B747 in South Ayrshire, 9 November 2000
687 m awayRef 200097RA01311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 198197RB00604 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1981.