B8080 crash in Falkirk on 11 February 1998 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B8080 in Falkirk at 16:00 on Wednesday 11 February 1998. The 20-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9981, longitude -3.79254, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E601995
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8080
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 28 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198296QF05263
Slight
Leyland crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 14 January 1992
42 m awayRef 199296PF05756
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 16 May 1988
51 m awayRef 198896RF05200
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 19 March 1990
60 m awayRef 199096PF05115
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 2 February 2014
62 m awayRef 2014961400218
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 23 December 2025
64 m awayRef 2025991687719
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199896E601995 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.