B816 crash in Falkirk on 30 May 2001 at 15:10 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B816 in Falkirk at 15:10 on Wednesday 30 May 2001. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Sierra and the 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2001
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99796, longitude -3.80522, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk South, Falkirk, FK1 5JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200196E617425
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 816
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2014.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 3 March 2014
57 m awayRef 2014961400364
Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 June 2013
89 m awayRef 2013961301122
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 July 2000
90 m awayRef 200096E610019
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 May 1993
100 m awayRef 199396PF03075
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 10 May 1983
100 m awayRef 198396QF05172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 29 September 1985
110 m awayRef 198596BF05326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 200196E617425 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.