A977 crash in Clackmannanshire on 6 February 1985 at 23:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A977 in Clackmannanshire at 23:40 on Wednesday 6 February 1985. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 1985
- Wednesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14118, longitude -3.64951, in the FK14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198596FA06005
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 977
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 84 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 13 January 2017
84 m awayRef 2017961700068
Serious
Car crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 4 June 1983
100 m awayRef 198396FA12043
Serious
Car crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 8 October 1987
150 m awayRef 198796FA12090
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 15 February 1990
156 m awayRef 199096FA12405
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 13 February 1984
224 m awayRef 198496FA12020
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A977 in Clackmannanshire, 21 October 1998
412 m awayRef 199896E249194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198596FA06005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Clackmannanshire road accident statistics for 1985.