A770 crash in Inverclyde on 12 February 2008 at 22:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A770 in Inverclyde at 22:15 on Tuesday 12 February 2008. The 35-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95828, longitude -4.81465, in the PA19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gourock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverclyde West, Inverclyde, PA19 1RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Inverclyde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897KC01702
- Council area
- Inverclyde
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 770
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 7 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200597KC00611
Slight
Car crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 28 September 1986
14 m awayRef 198697XB05409
Slight
Car crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 30 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198597XB06101
Slight
Car crash on the A771 in Inverclyde, 25 December 1986
14 m awayRef 198697XB07112
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 22 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199797XB70603
Slight
Car crash on the A770 in Inverclyde, 26 November 1988
14 m awayRef 198897XB05711
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 200897KC01702 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Inverclyde road accident statistics for 2008.