A716 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 15 February 1991 at 17:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:00 on Friday 15 February 1991. The 65-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1991
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89887, longitude -5.02237, in the DG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stranraer.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991986004791
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 716
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 20 February 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A718 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 February 2001
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Car crash on the A718 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 September 2001
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 May 1980
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 65, 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 1991986004791 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 1991.