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Serious A820 crash in Stirling on 27 December 1997 at 08:00 involving a BMW 7 Series

A BMW 7 Series crashed on the A820 in Stirling at 08:00 on Saturday 27 December 1997. A 65-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 71-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Dec 1997
Saturday, 08:00
Vehicles
1
BMW 7 Series
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18883, longitude -3.94404, in the FK15 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199796E930020
Council area
Stirling
Police force
Central

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
820
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered 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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 151 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    71 years
    Engine capacity
    3,430 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 7 Series)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 7 Series)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 199796E930020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 1997.