Serious A803 crash in Falkirk on 11 June 1998 at 00:10 involving an Audi 100
An Audi 100 and a minibus were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 00:10 on Thursday 11 June 1998. The 49-year-old male driver of the Audi 100 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jun 1998
- Thursday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 100 and minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98591, longitude -3.66213, in the EH49 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E813714
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 14 June 2016
28 m awayRef 2016961600954
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the M9 in Falkirk, 4 August 1992
40 m awayRef 199296BG14679
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 9 January 2001
71 m awayRef 200196E407198
Serious
Van crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 20 July 1982
108 m awayRef 198296UG11075
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M9 in Falkirk, 2 June 2013
109 m awayRef 2013961301045
Slight
Honda Integra crash on the M9 in Falkirk, 17 August 2000
112 m awayRef 200096E813895
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 100
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 100)
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 199896E813714 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.