Serious unclassified road crash in Stirling FK8 on 17 January 2003 at 08:35 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stirling at 08:35 on Friday 17 January 2003. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jan 2003
- Friday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12107, longitude -3.94178, in the FK8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stirling North, Stirling, FK8 2BX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200396E300162
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 1991.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 4 August 1991
50 m awayRef 199196LS02663
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 26 September 1985
73 m awayRef 198596MS02255
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 4 July 1994
85 m awayRef 199496KS02051
Serious
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 11 September 1993
85 m awayRef 199396KS05028
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 27 June 1987
85 m awayRef 198796MS02133
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 12 September 1985
85 m awayRef 198596LS02242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 200396E300162 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 2003.