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A803 crash in Falkirk on 10 March 1996 at 00:15 involving a Ford Granada taxi

A Ford Granada taxi hit a pedestrian on the A803 in Falkirk at 00:15 on Sunday 10 March 1996. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
Slight
Date
10 Mar 1996
Sunday, 00:15
Vehicles
1
Ford Granada
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99686, longitude -3.75399, in the FK2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Laurieston.

Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199696PF18938
Council area
Falkirk
Police force
Central

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
803
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

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 slight injury crash on 16 April 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Granada

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 199696PF18938 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 1996.