A716 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 26 August 1984 at 00:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway at 00:20 on Sunday 26 August 1984. The 27-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
- 26 Aug 1984
- Sunday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.69953, longitude -4.90196, in the DG9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984981282298
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 716
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1994.
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 June 1994
100 m awayRef 1994981021894
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 December 2013
456 m awayRef 2013981127013
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 November 2016
493 m awayRef 2016981119016
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 May 2000
632 m awayRef 2000981015800
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 September 1998
671 m awayRef 1998981029098
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the B7065 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 November 2015
708 m awayRef 2015981117915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 1984981282298 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 1984.