Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK2 on 30 August 1996 at 16:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 16:00 on Friday 30 August 1996. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Aug 1996
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00612, longitude -3.7974, in the FK2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199696WF17528
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 199696WF17528 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.