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A81 crash in Stirling on 22 December 1989 at 18:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A81 in Stirling at 18:30 on Friday 22 December 1989. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Dec 1989
Friday, 18:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08655, longitude -4.3576, in the G63 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stirling

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198996IK04030
Council area
Stirling
Police force
Central

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
81
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 117 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 February 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 41, 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 198996IK04030 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 1989.