A944 crash in Aberdeen City on 24 November 1982 at 08:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle, a car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City at 08:15 on Wednesday 24 November 1982. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1982
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.14651, longitude -2.20986, in the AB15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982928207492
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 944
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 94 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2011.
Slight
Alfa Romeo GTV crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 31 May 2011
94 m awayRef 2011921101930
Slight
Lexmoto LXR crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 3 December 2019
96 m awayRef 2019920908528
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 23 August 1987
100 m awayRef 1987928704992
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B944 in Aberdeen City, 23 December 2011
112 m awayRef 2011921200318
Slight
Car crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 5 November 1982
141 m awayRef 1982928207059
Fatal
Car crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 4 March 1983
141 m awayRef 1983928301404
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1982928207492 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeen City road accident statistics for 1982.