A801 crash in Falkirk on 28 January 1999 at 20:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A801 in Falkirk at 20:40 on Thursday 28 January 1999. The 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 1999
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95302, longitude -3.68557, in the FK2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199996E448947
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 801
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 12 February 2002
32 m awayRef 200296E200164
Slight
Car crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 28 December 2009
32 m awayRef 2009960903011
Serious
Mercedes crash on the M9 in Falkirk, 24 January 1990
51 m awayRef 199096BG11017
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 13 July 1991
51 m awayRef 199196UG10553
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 1 June 2008
72 m awayRef 2008960801400
Serious
Car crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 25 March 1984
121 m awayRef 198496UG10039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199996E448947 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 1999.