A803 crash in Falkirk on 29 April 1997 at 16:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and an Iveco-Ford van were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 16:00 on Tuesday 29 April 1997. The 25-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 1997
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00185, longitude -3.80073, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796E670133
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2013.
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 24 June 2013
11 m awayRef 2013961301147
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 15 June 1984
30 m awayRef 198496QF05262
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 30 April 1985
30 m awayRef 198596RF05146
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 20 September 2015
39 m awayRef 2015961501643
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 26 June 1997
41 m awayRef 199796E673020
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 17 September 2022
43 m awayRef 2022991220640
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 199796E670133 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.