A801 crash in Falkirk on 18 December 2000 at 07:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
An agricultural vehicle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A801 in Falkirk at 07:30 on Monday 18 December 2000. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2000
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Agricultural vehicle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95824, longitude -3.6914, in the FK2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200096E407085
- 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
- 30 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, 81 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 December 1986.
Fatal
Car crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 12 December 1986
81 m awayRef 198696UG10216
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 9 March 2009
89 m awayRef 2009960900620
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 18 October 2011
113 m awayRef 2011961102048
Slight
Car crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 30 June 2000
133 m awayRef 200096E404435
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 7 August 2023
137 m awayRef 2023991339000
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A801 in Falkirk, 12 May 2019
154 m awayRef 2019961900155
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200096E407085 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.