Serious A81 crash in Stirling on 27 July 2024 at 12:22 involving a bicycle
Two bicycles were involved in a crash on the A81 in Stirling at 12:22 on Saturday 27 July 2024. The 79-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured and the 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 2024
- Saturday, 12:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.03752, longitude -4.39622, in the G63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991472789
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 834
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2014.
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A81 in Stirling, 12 May 2014
3 m awayRef 2014961400794
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A81 in Stirling, 11 September 1995
18 m awayRef 199596HK11204
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A81 in Stirling, 12 December 1992
22 m awayRef 199296HK11721
Slight
Car crash on the A81 in Stirling, 18 September 1986
28 m awayRef 198696HK11177
Slight
Subaru Sumo crash on the A81 in Stirling, 4 October 1994
28 m awayRef 199496HK11439
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in Stirling, 9 November 1982
29 m awayRef 198296HK11035
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 79, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024991472789 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 2024.