A91 crash in Clackmannanshire on 8 April 1997 at 14:55 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A91 in Clackmannanshire at 14:55 on Tuesday 8 April 1997. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 1997
- Tuesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.15828, longitude -3.7066, in the FK14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E236308
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 91
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 23 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198596FA10043
Serious
Car crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 15 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198696FA10139
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 5 July 2010
54 m awayRef 2010961001256
Serious
Nissan crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 14 August 2012
67 m awayRef 2012961201496
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 9 September 1993
100 m awayRef 199396FA12358
Slight
Car crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 21 June 1989
100 m awayRef 198996FA12083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199796E236308 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Clackmannanshire road accident statistics for 1997.