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A803 crash in Falkirk on 16 October 1997 at 15:40 involving a Leyland bus

A Leyland bus crashed on the A803 in Falkirk at 15:40 on Thursday 16 October 1997. A 2-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Oct 1997
Thursday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Leyland
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00118, longitude -3.88714, in the FK4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnybridge.

Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199796E677859
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
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 2, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Alighting

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 199796E677859 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.