Serious A82 crash in Argyll and Bute on 21 August 1987 at 13:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute at 13:40 on Friday 21 August 1987. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 1987
- Friday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.21441, longitude -4.6977, in the G83 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198797LF03608
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 82
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 15 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199897LA03203
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 15 August 2014
59 m awayRef 201497LA03608
Serious
Subaru crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute, 3 October 2003
92 m awayRef 200397LA00810
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 6 July 1982
100 m awayRef 198297LF00807
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 16 July 1982
100 m awayRef 198297LF02607
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A82 in Argyll and Bute, 14 September 1997
100 m awayRef 199797LF00909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 198797LF03608 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.