A811 crash in Stirling on 19 October 1998 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Jetta
A Volkswagen Jetta and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A811 in Stirling at 16:00 on Monday 19 October 1998. A 71-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Jetta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1998
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Jetta and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09868, longitude -4.34355, in the G63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E823835
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 811
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 875
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A875 in Stirling, 9 February 2010
At the same spotRef 2010961000297
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A811 in Stirling, 24 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199796E925257
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A811 in Stirling, 21 December 2011
At the same spotRef 2011961102537
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A811 in Stirling, 4 February 2019
8 m awayRef 2019961900040
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A811 in Stirling, 5 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199596HK12864
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A875 in Stirling, 29 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025991634756
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Jetta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Jetta)
- 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 199896E823835 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.