A876 crash in Falkirk on 1 June 2002 at 12:30 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A876 in Falkirk at 12:30 on Saturday 1 June 2002. The 42-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2002
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05811, longitude -3.74732, in the FK2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200296E201217
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 876
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1991.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 16 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199196BF16456
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 7 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200496E401484
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 9 October 2013
34 m awayRef 2013961301857
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 16 February 1997
50 m awayRef 199796WF16648
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 19 January 2017
102 m awayRef 2017961700102
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A876 in Falkirk, 8 September 2014
128 m awayRef 2014961401492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
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 200296E201217 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 2002.