B757 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 22 January 1998 at 16:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire at 16:20 on Thursday 22 January 1998. The 41-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91778, longitude -4.15049, in the G66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkintilloch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897DC04101
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 757
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 819
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 1 December 1990.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199097DC00512
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 18 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198197DC04003
Slight
Car crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198397DC01512
Slight
Car crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198597DC04907
Slight
Leyland crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 3 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199297DC01007
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 27 January 2002
45 m awayRef 200297CD06301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 41, 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 199897DC04101 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 1998.