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Bicycle

First bicycle Accident

1842
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

Kirkpatrick MacMillan was also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offense, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous "gentleman from Dumfries-shire... bestride a velocipede... of ingenious design" knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.


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