Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 28 June 1997 at 15:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 15:00 on Saturday 28 June 1997. A 37-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jun 1997
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92959, longitude -3.74455, in the FK1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E436804
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 29 June 1998
141 m awayRef 199896E443531
Serious
Car crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 3 November 1984
141 m awayRef 198496UG08157
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 3 July 1997
141 m awayRef 199796E436111
Slight
Car crash on the B8028 in West Lothian, 16 September 2015
165 m awayRef 2015950004337
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B8028 in West Lothian, 2 March 1992
175 m awayRef 1992950254492
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A8028 in West Lothian, 8 May 1998
240 m awayRef 1998950483098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199796E436804 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 1997.