A943 crash in Aberdeenshire on 24 February 1991 at 18:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A943 in Aberdeenshire at 18:30 on Sunday 24 February 1991. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1991
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991929101348
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 943
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 979
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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, 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 1991929101348 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeenshire road accident statistics for 1991.