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M9 crash in Stirling on 4 August 1998 at 20:00 involving a Mercedes 300 lorry

A Mercedes 300 lorry and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on the M9 in Stirling at 20:00 on Tuesday 4 August 1998. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes 300 lorry was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Aug 1998
Tuesday, 20:00
Vehicles
2
Mercedes 300 and Mercedes
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09457, longitude -3.94974, in the FK7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stirling

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199896E818819
Council area
Stirling
Police force
Central

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
9
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2008.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

  • Vehicle 2: Mercedes

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 6, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 300)

    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 199896E818819 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.