A905 crash in Falkirk on 23 April 2000 at 16:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A905 in Falkirk at 16:00 on Sunday 23 April 2000. The 75-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto and a 68-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Punto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2000
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01741, longitude -3.74629, in the FK3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200096E402595
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 905
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1997.
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 13 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199796SG06420
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199596SG06953
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 19 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200196E408670
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 7 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199896E440401
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 31 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199596SG06095
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 4 June 2012
At the same spotRef 2012961201019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 200096E402595 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 2000.