Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 29 January 2000 at 00:20 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 00:20 on Saturday 29 January 2000. The 24-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99855, longitude -3.77687, in the FK1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200096E801446
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 9
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 28 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200496E401975
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 2 October 1992
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Slight
Rover 2000 crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 21 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199496PF01504
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 25 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199996E628956
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 31 December 1993
22 m awayRef 199396PF01954
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 15 April 2016
25 m awayRef 2016961600600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 200096E801446 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.