Serious A9 crash in Stirling on 7 December 1998 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the A9 in Stirling at 15:30 on Monday 7 December 1998. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and an 11-year-old female pedestrian 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 1998
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09779, longitude -3.92787, in the FK7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199896E828399
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 9
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2007.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A9 in Stirling, 20 February 2007
14 m awayRef 2007960700557
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 31 July 2009
22 m awayRef 2009960901732
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A9 in Stirling, 3 August 2020
27 m awayRef 2020990969476
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A9 in Stirling, 22 February 1993
28 m awayRef 199396LS07949
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Stirling, 6 July 1989
28 m awayRef 198996LS06213
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A9 in Stirling, 14 June 2002
36 m awayRef 200296E201373
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199896E828399 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.