Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK6 on 23 July 2002 at 21:00 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 21:00 on Tuesday 23 July 2002. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2002
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00848, longitude -3.91816, in the FK6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Denny and Banknock, Falkirk, FK6 5LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200296E201775
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 1 February 2014
18 m awayRef 2014961400187
Serious
Minibus crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 18 December 1989
22 m awayRef 198996BF10245
Serious
Volvo 345 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 July 1992
28 m awayRef 199296XF10364
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 13 April 2008
36 m awayRef 2008960801003
Serious
Car crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 16 August 1981
40 m awayRef 198196BF10067
Serious
Lorry crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 27 October 1989
60 m awayRef 198996BF10210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200296E201775 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.