Unclassified road crash in North Ayrshire KA20 on 16 February 1981 at 16:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire at 16:25 on Monday 16 February 1981. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 1981
- Monday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65697, longitude -4.74507, in the KA20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198197UB01302
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 361 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1986.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 31 August 1986
361 m awayRef 198697UB03608
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 9 August 2003
469 m awayRef 200397UA01608
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 22 November 2000
472 m awayRef 200097UB03011
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 25 September 2009
474 m awayRef 200997UA05109
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 26 September 2021
475 m awayRef 2021991091973
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 15 March 2007
481 m awayRef 200797UA04103
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198197UB01302 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1981.