Serious A91 crash in Clackmannanshire on 19 October 1997 at 11:00 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina crashed on the A91 in Clackmannanshire at 11:00 on Sunday 19 October 1997. The 38-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Oct 1997
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.15537, longitude -3.72901, in the FK13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E240324
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 November 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 15 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198396FA10116
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 29 November 1995
20 m awayRef 199596FA10864
Serious
Fiat Strada crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 22 March 1994
20 m awayRef 199496FA10656
Serious
Car crash on the A91 in Clackmannanshire, 10 May 1988
30 m awayRef 198896FA10056
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Clackmannanshire, 27 August 2006
30 m awayRef 2006960602301
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Clackmannanshire, 24 March 2004
36 m awayRef 200496E400790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
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 199796E240324 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.