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Serious A935 crash in Angus on 23 May 1987 at 23:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A935 in Angus at 23:30 on Saturday 23 May 1987. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously 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
Serious
Date
23 May 1987
Saturday, 23:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.72978, longitude -2.68475, in the DD9 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Angus

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19879387E0507
Council area
Angus
Police force
Tayside

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
935
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, 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 19879387E0507 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Angus road accident statistics for 1987.