A814 crash in Argyll and Bute on 3 August 1987 at 14:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A814 in Argyll and Bute at 14:45 on Monday 3 August 1987. A 23-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 1987
- Monday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14635, longitude -4.80725, in the G84 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198797LF00408
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 814
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2019.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 24 November 2019
28 m awayRef 2019970901797
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 5 November 1992
224 m awayRef 199297LF00911
Slight
Minibus crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 3 October 1982
361 m awayRef 198297LF00710
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 20 October 1988
361 m awayRef 198897LF03810
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 29 February 1996
447 m awayRef 199697LF02602
Serious
Car crash on the A814 in Argyll and Bute, 1 October 1988
447 m awayRef 198897LF00110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 198797LF00408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Argyll and Bute road accident statistics for 1987.