A801 crash in Falkirk on 25 July 2000 at 15:30 involving a Honda VFR800F motorcycle
A Honda VFR800F motorcycle and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A801 in Falkirk at 15:30 on Tuesday 25 July 2000. The 43-year-old male rider of the Honda VFR800F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2000
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda VFR800F and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95995, longitude -3.69131, 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
- 200096E404591
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 13 August 2014
7 m awayRef 2014961401329
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 15 August 2010
14 m awayRef 2010961001555
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 30 April 2010
20 m awayRef 2010961000831
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 1 May 2003
20 m awayRef 200396E301212
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 9 March 2013
22 m awayRef 2013961300441
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 21 July 2000
28 m awayRef 200096E404506
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda VFR800F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda VFR800F)
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 200096E404591 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.