Serious B8073 crash in Argyll and Bute on 27 May 1990 at 15:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute at 15:30 on Sunday 27 May 1990. The 24-year-old female cyclist 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
- 27 May 1990
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61376, longitude -6.10057, in the PA75 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Argyll and Bute
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199097LB03205
- Council area
- Argyll and Bute
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8073
- 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, 412 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 29 September 1988
412 m awayRef 198897LB04109
Slight
Car crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 16 January 1989
539 m awayRef 198997LB01601
Serious
Car crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 21 May 1982
728 m awayRef 198297LB51505
Slight
Car crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 1 February 1987
800 m awayRef 198797LB50102
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 3 October 1994
922 m awayRef 199497LB00510
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the B8073 in Argyll and Bute, 14 January 2019
1.0 km awayRef 201997LB01201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 24, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 199097LB03205 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 1990.