Unclassified road crash in Stirling FK8 on 30 December 2008 at 15:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stirling at 15:00 on Tuesday 30 December 2008. The 39-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
- 30 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12241, longitude -3.94217, in the FK8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stirling North, Stirling, FK8 2BX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960803296
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 February 1994.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 14 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199496KS02267
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 21 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200196E012537
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 10 October 1988
30 m awayRef 198896NS02338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 15 May 1989
41 m awayRef 198996LS02152
Slight
Lada Riva crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 20 February 1991
45 m awayRef 199196LS02497
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 26 September 1985
89 m awayRef 198596MS02255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 2008960803296 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 2008.