B734 crash in South Ayrshire on 15 July 1983 at 22:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B734 in South Ayrshire at 22:30 on Friday 15 July 1983. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 1983
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.29047, longitude -4.69292, in the KA19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397RC01707
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 734
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 4 September 1981
141 m awayRef 198197RC00509
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 16 December 2025
160 m awayRef 2025991683639
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 14 May 2008
241 m awayRef 200897UD20605
Serious
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 27 August 1994
283 m awayRef 199497RA21608
Slight
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 14 December 1988
283 m awayRef 198897RA20912
Slight
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 11 July 1985
412 m awayRef 198597RC01207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198397RC01707 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1983.