Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 18 April 1981 at 11:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 11:20 on Saturday 18 April 1981. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 1981
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99768, longitude -3.82138, in the FK1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198196PF07102
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 31 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198296PF07429
Slight
Taxi crash on the B816 in Falkirk, 29 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198596RF07105
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 20 September 2007
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Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 18 November 2021
46 m awayRef 2021991111360
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B816 in Falkirk, 31 January 2009
71 m awayRef 2009960900282
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 16 January 2014
71 m awayRef 2014961400097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198196PF07102 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 1981.