A803 crash in Falkirk on 23 December 1979 at 19:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 19:15 on Sunday 23 December 1979. A 24-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1979; Sunday, 19:15
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197996YD04034
Council area: Falkirk
Police force: Central

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 803
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
33 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 197996YD04034 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Falkirk road accident statistics for 1979.