B905 crash in Falkirk on 20 December 1985 at 16:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B905 in Falkirk at 16:20 on Friday 20 December 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1985
- Friday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02842, longitude -3.80838, in the FK5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Larbert and Stenhousemuir.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198596WF13191
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 905
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1984.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 25 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198496WF13216
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 29 December 2023
54 m awayRef 2023991393161
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 August 2000
67 m awayRef 200096E611115
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 30 January 2014
67 m awayRef 2014961400177
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 6 August 1992
71 m awayRef 199296WF13440
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 22 October 2011
90 m awayRef 2011961102078
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198596WF13191 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 1985.