C road crash in Falkirk FK4 on 16 January 2003 at 12:00 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Falkirk at 12:00 on Thursday 16 January 2003. The 72-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2003
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 626 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0059, longitude -3.88707, in the FK4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnybridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bonnybridge and Larbert, Falkirk, FK4 1LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200396E300276
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 August 2014.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 7 August 2014
28 m awayRef 2014961401286
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 3 June 1986
36 m awayRef 198696XF11092
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 6 June 2011
36 m awayRef 2011961101142
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Falkirk, 10 August 2002
36 m awayRef 200296E201869
Serious
Bedford Astra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 26 October 1994
36 m awayRef 199496XF11597
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 1 September 1997
36 m awayRef 199796E675955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200396E300276 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 2003.