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Serious B727 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 21 August 1998 at 17:10 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:10 on Friday 21 August 1998. The 40-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured and a 4-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Aug 1998
Friday, 17:10
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84348, longitude -4.06181, in the DG6 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998982014398
Council area
Dumfries and Galloway
Police force
Dumfries and Galloway
Highway authority
Dumfries & Galloway

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
727
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 August 2024.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 4, cyclist, 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 1998982014398 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 1998.