Serious A91 crash in Stirling on 8 December 1998 at 06:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and two cars were involved in a crash on the A91 in Stirling at 06:30 on Tuesday 8 December 1998. The 47-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Lorry and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08207, longitude -3.90989, in the FK7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E070307
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 91
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 30 April 2003.
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A91 in Stirling, 30 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200396E301138
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A91 in Stirling, 9 December 2005
10 m awayRef 2005960503001
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A91 in Stirling, 14 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200196E013674
Slight
Volvo crash on the A91 in Stirling, 14 October 2006
14 m awayRef 2006960602794
Serious
ERF crash on the A91 in Stirling, 5 September 2006
14 m awayRef 2006960602405
Serious
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A91 in Stirling, 29 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199796E800015
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199896E070307 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 1998.