Serious A908 crash in Clackmannanshire on 1 February 1997 at 18:25 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire at 18:25 on Saturday 1 February 1997. The 28-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 405 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Feb 1997
- Saturday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Uno and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13136, longitude -3.77443, in the FK10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alloa.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199796EA05771
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 908
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 9 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198296EA05156
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 20 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199696FA11002
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 13 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200196E209500
Serious
Car crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 26 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198896EA05068
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 5 September 2015
17 m awayRef 2015961501408
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 24 September 1991
20 m awayRef 199196EA05645
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 199796EA05771 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.