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B837 crash in Stirling on 6 March 1981 at 23:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the B837 in Stirling at 23:45 on Friday 6 March 1981. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Mar 1981
Friday, 23:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08015, longitude -4.50025, in the G63 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stirling

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198196HK09005
Council area
Stirling
Police force
Central

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
837
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198196HK09005 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 1981.