Serious unclassified road crash in Stirling FK7 on 4 July 1998 at 06:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Stirling at 06:00 on Saturday 4 July 1998. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09292, longitude -3.99065, in the FK7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E816087
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 582 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1996.
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 10 December 1996
582 m awayRef 199696UG12935
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 24 June 1983
659 m awayRef 198396BS08050
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 28 November 1981
683 m awayRef 198196LS08280
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Stirling, 21 November 1996
689 m awayRef 199696BK01341
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 21 August 1989
807 m awayRef 198996NS10155
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 6 April 2011
811 m awayRef 2011961100718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199896E816087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 1998.