B8080 crash in Falkirk on 26 November 1998 at 13:10 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego and a Renault 11 were involved in a crash on the B8080 in Falkirk at 13:10 on Thursday 26 November 1998. A 15-year-old female passenger in the Renault 11 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
- 26 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Montego and Renault 11
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99748, longitude -3.7792, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E615785
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 15 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199996E621095
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 28 March 2015
12 m awayRef 2015961500542
Slight
Car crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 8 January 2023
18 m awayRef 2023991262708
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 13 February 2022
20 m awayRef 2022991143716
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 6 February 2006
22 m awayRef 2006960600368
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 5 May 2017
22 m awayRef 2017961700565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 11
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 11)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199896E615785 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.