Serious A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 24 November 1993 at 17:05 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 17:05 on Wednesday 24 November 1993. The 38-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 1993
- Wednesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93643, longitude -4.31164, in the G62 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397CD02711
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1991.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 13 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199197CD02112
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 16 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199197CD01107
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 21 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199697CD01404
Slight
Van crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 8 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198797CD00601
Serious
Lorry crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198897CD01009
Serious
Car crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198497CD00112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 38, on vehicle 2 (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 199397CD02711 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 1993.