Serious A803 crash in Falkirk on 4 October 1999 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A803 in Falkirk at 23:30 on Monday 4 October 1999. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 1999
- Monday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00045, longitude -3.78273, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199996E630876
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 16 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 16 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199996E634599
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 17 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200096E608339
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 17 October 1988
10 m awayRef 198896QF03228
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 30 January 1998
14 m awayRef 199896E601373
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 26 December 2009
14 m awayRef 2009960903003
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 1 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199496PF03679
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199996E630876 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.