Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK2 on 26 September 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 18:00 on Thursday 26 September 1985. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 1985
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02707, longitude -3.77783, in the FK2 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
- 198596WF15131
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2009.
Slight
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Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 8 April 2008
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Honda crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 March 1990
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Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 20 January 2008
89 m awayRef 2008960800244
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 18 November 1991
100 m awayRef 199196WF17534
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, 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 198596WF15131 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.