B904 crash in Falkirk on 21 December 1998 at 19:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B904 in Falkirk at 19:45 on Monday 21 December 1998. The 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 26-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1998
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99556, longitude -3.70583, in the FK2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polmont.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E447815
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 904
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B904 in Falkirk, 15 September 1983
20 m awayRef 198396UG11121
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B904 in Falkirk, 4 May 1983
20 m awayRef 198396UG11055
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 4 April 2011
22 m awayRef 2011961100703
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 2 March 1990
76 m awayRef 199096SG05387
Serious
Van crash on the B904 in Falkirk, 27 June 1983
102 m awayRef 198396UG11083
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 20 August 1988
102 m awayRef 198896SG05163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, 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 199896E447815 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.