Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK2 on 13 December 1991 at 21:20 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 21:20 on Friday 13 December 1991. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1991
- Friday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02269, longitude -3.76961, in the FK2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199196WF17550
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 200 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 August 1982
200 m awayRef 198296WF17167
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 9 July 1990
200 m awayRef 199096WF17895
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 July 1998
290 m awayRef 199896E610249
Serious
Fiat Tempra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 January 1992
300 m awayRef 199296WF17603
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 August 1998
300 m awayRef 199896E611510
Serious
Fiat 127 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 6 June 1990
300 m awayRef 199096WF17863
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 199196WF17550 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 1991.