Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 21 May 1989 at 01:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 01:25 on Sunday 21 May 1989. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 May 1989
- Sunday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99921, longitude -3.77815, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198996BF01094
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 October 1987.
Serious
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At the same spotRef 198796QF01368
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At the same spotRef 198096PF01214
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 26 November 1995
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198496PF01141
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Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 5 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199496PF01133
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 13 February 1981
At the same spotRef 198196PF01057
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 198996BF01094 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 1989.