Serious A908 crash in Clackmannanshire on 1 August 1997 at 12:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A908 in Clackmannanshire at 12:05 on Friday 1 August 1997. A 9-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
- 1 Aug 1997
- Friday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13677, longitude -3.77324, in the FK10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E238751
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 908
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 November 1985.
Serious
Van crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 29 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198596FA11115
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 31 October 1995
32 m awayRef 199596FA11148
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 15 March 1998
40 m awayRef 199896E243973
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 7 July 2012
51 m awayRef 2012961201251
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Clackmannanshire, 22 May 2007
71 m awayRef 2007960701408
Serious
ERF crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 15 February 1991
71 m awayRef 199196FA11059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199796E238751 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.