A807 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 19 August 1983 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire at 16:30 on Friday 19 August 1983. The 56-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1983
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9367, longitude -4.29725, in the G62 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397CD01808
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 807
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 September 1981
141 m awayRef 198197CD01909
Slight
Car crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 23 April 1982
300 m awayRef 198297CD02404
Slight
Car crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 8 December 1981
361 m awayRef 198197CD00612
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 19 May 2017
377 m awayRef 201797GJ00305
Fatal
Skoda Superb crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 February 2023
399 m awayRef 2023991280695
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 17 October 1995
400 m awayRef 199597CD02110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 198397CD01808 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 1983.