Notes:
Scottish sidecar pilot Jock Taylor and his Swedish passenger Benga Johansson were in third place on their Windle-Yamaha outfit bearing the race number #3, during the fourth lap of the Finnish Grand Prix, then a round of the 1982 World Sidecar Championship, held under wet conditions at Imatra, Finland, on Sunday, 15 August 1982.

Whilst trying to keep up with second-placed machine of Alain Michel-Michael Burkhard, Jock Taylor got into a slide and hit a telephone pole at the inside of the Linnankoskenkatu, the first corner of the Imatra street course. That was the second season in which sidecars were allowed for fare all-enclosing, streamlined bodywork, and if passenger Johansson was thrown out of the vehicle, Taylor was pinned inside it.

Track marshals and firemen tried to extricate Jock Taylor from the overturned wreckage when suddenly another sidecar, driven by Finnish duo Vesa Bienek-Pentti Niinivaara, having lost control on the wet asphalt, hit them all at full speed. It was not clear if Bienek slid off after passing on a puddle while overtaking another competitor, although the marshals waved yellow flags or, according to Bienek testimony, he lost control of the sidecar while passing on the other side of the track because the visibility was cancelled in the wake of the other machine.

After the accident, the oganizers immediately stopped the race. Seriously injured, Jock Taylor and Vesa Bienek were taken to Imatra hospital, where Jock Taylor died at 17h30 that same day.

Jock Taylor and his passenger Benga Johannson had won the World Sidecar Championship in 1980, scoring four outright wins and finishing on the podium in all seven events of the season. Two years later, Taylor and Johannson raised the sidecar lap record on the Isle of Man's Mountain Circuit, to 108.29 mi/h (ca. 175 km/h), a lap record which stood over seven years. During the 1982 season they had obtained just two third places in the World Sidecar Championship, in the Belgian and Swedish Grands Prix. Their best competitors, the Swiss team Rolf Biland-Kurt Waltisperg drove a more performant LCR machine than the Yamaha-powered Windle outfit used by Taylor and Johannson.

Jock Taylor was survived by his wife Kate. He is buried in the churchyard at his hometown Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland. A stele was erected in his memory near the place of accident at the Imatra circuit.

His memory was also honored at the Beveridge Park circuit, in Kirkcaldy, Fife region, Scotland, one of the tracks where he raced many times, thrilling huge crowds, with a monument located in the park near the Railway Dip bend, at the end of the start/finish straight of the venue. In 2021, the memorial was updated with a plaque honoring all the racing riders who gave their lives at the track. They include the names of Jimmy Blair, who was the first rider to die in an incident at Beveridge Park in 1953, Matt Redmond, Angus Callum, Davy Drummond and Brian McAnelly.

This was reported to be the second fatality at the Imatra circuit, since the track was inaugurated in 1964. Another British rider, Vernon Cottle lost his life, during the 1964 Finnish Grand Prix. Racing was suspended for 30 years after a six-year-old boy in attendance at the event with his family, was killed following an accident almost at the same spot as Jock Taylor's crash, in 1986. A fourth fatality occurred at Imatra in June 2019, when Swiss rider Mathias Gnägi crashed along the Linnansuontie road.

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• E-mail by Mischa Bijenhof, dated 28 January 2006.
• E-mail by Chris Hall, dated 30 January 2006.
• E-mail by Kimmo Salakka, dated 25 March 2020, citing [S1].
• E-mail by Kimmo Salakka, dated 25 March 2020.