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Serious B974 crash in Aberdeenshire on 8 July 1982 at 21:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B974 in Aberdeenshire at 21:00 on Thursday 8 July 1982. The 17-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
8 Jul 1982
Thursday, 21:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.7872, longitude -2.51229, in the AB30 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982928204087
Council area
Aberdeenshire
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
974
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 168 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, 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 1982928204087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeenshire road accident statistics for 1982.