B8028 crash in Falkirk on 16 May 1998 at 21:05 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B8028 in Falkirk at 21:05 on Saturday 16 May 1998. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1998
- Saturday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97093, longitude -3.76981, in the FK1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E442768
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8028
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 810
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 May 2018.
Serious
Lexmoto ZSX 125 crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 17 May 2018
8 m awayRef 2018961800203
Slight
Car crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 10 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198796UG12006
Serious
Car crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 10 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198796UG12121
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 3 November 2018
44 m awayRef 2018961800382
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 14 August 2014
47 m awayRef 2014961401344
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 23 December 2017
50 m awayRef 2017961800015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 199896E442768 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 1998.