A803 crash in Falkirk on 12 December 2001 at 17:15 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and a Hyundai Accent were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 17:15 on Wednesday 12 December 2001. The 35-year-old female driver of the Rover 25 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2001
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and Hyundai Accent
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99281, longitude -3.73187, in the FK2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Braes, Falkirk, FK2 0YS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200196E408758
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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 16 June 2005.
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 16 June 2005
At the same spotRef 2005960501413
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 3 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011961100260
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 26 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008960800842
Serious
Taxi crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 20 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198996UG15171
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 30 July 2006
At the same spotRef 2006960602031
Slight
Scania crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 30 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199696UG14162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
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 200196E408758 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 2001.