Serious A9 crash in Stirling on 16 January 1990 at 09:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Ford Orion and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A9 in Stirling at 09:00 on Tuesday 16 January 1990. A 14-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jan 1990
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.10016, longitude -3.93684, in the FK7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199096KS07008
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1997.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A9 in Stirling, 15 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199796E051213
Slight
MCW crash on the A9 in Stirling, 18 April 2001
14 m awayRef 200196E012143
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A9 in Stirling, 12 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200296E200185
Slight
Dennis crash on the A9 in Stirling, 20 March 2000
14 m awayRef 200096E003014
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A9 in Stirling, 2 June 2002
14 m awayRef 200296E201237
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A9 in Stirling, 27 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025991677518
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199096KS07008 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 1990.