Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK6 on 12 January 1985 at 22:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 22:40 on Saturday 12 January 1985. The 44-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 1985
- Saturday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02151, longitude -3.90915, in the FK6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Denny.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198596XF09005
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 26 August 2001
32 m awayRef 200196E618314
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 July 2021
58 m awayRef 2021991065442
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 11 February 1989
63 m awayRef 198996XF09020
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 November 1985
100 m awayRef 198596XF09218
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 11 May 1986
100 m awayRef 198696XF09078
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A872 in Falkirk, 22 February 1992
100 m awayRef 199296XF09961
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198596XF09005 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.