Serious unclassified road crash in Stirling FK9 on 18 April 1991 at 21:30 involving a Ford Sierra taxi
A bicycle and a Ford Sierra taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stirling at 21:30 on Thursday 18 April 1991. The 22-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 1991
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13789, longitude -3.92618, in the FK9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199196OS15846
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 2 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 2 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198996OS15055
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 15 March 2003
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Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 5 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199196OS15932
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 10 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198996BS15077
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 16 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199096OS15341
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 12 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199196OS15820
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 22, 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 199196OS15846 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 1991.