B803 crash in Falkirk on 27 October 2001 at 11:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2001
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99864, longitude -3.78345, 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 1RE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200196E618950
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2011.
Slight
Peugeot Bipper crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 15 December 2011
22 m awayRef 2011961102500
Serious
Vauxhall Signum crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 May 2010
36 m awayRef 2010961000903
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 June 2015
40 m awayRef 2015961501136
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 2 October 2025
45 m awayRef 2025991649343
Slight
Van crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 24 November 1981
50 m awayRef 198196QF01417
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 26 April 1985
50 m awayRef 198596RF01137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200196E618950 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.