Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 8 February 1982 at 09:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 09:00 on Monday 8 February 1982. The 34-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Feb 1982
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02843, longitude -3.43159, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rosyth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982948200543
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 March 2002.
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22 m awayRef 1988948802484
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 15 November 2000
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Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 19 June 1988
36 m awayRef 1988948802639
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 10 January 2024
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 24 February 1989
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, 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 1982948200543 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fife road accident statistics for 1982.