A9 crash in Falkirk on 13 December 2000 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A9 in Falkirk at 15:50 on Wednesday 13 December 2000. A 31-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and the 76-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04296, longitude -3.86127, in the FK5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200096E615812
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 April 2006.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A9 in Stirling, 4 April 2006
32 m awayRef 2006960600999
Slight
Volvo EX30 crash on the A9 in Falkirk, 13 October 2025
37 m awayRef 2025991653888
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A9 in Falkirk, 16 February 2014
48 m awayRef 2014961400265
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Falkirk, 20 October 1985
50 m awayRef 198596WF14144
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A9 in Falkirk, 18 August 1993
50 m awayRef 199396WF14100
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Falkirk, 2 February 1989
63 m awayRef 198996WF14025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200096E615812 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.