A883 crash in Falkirk on 22 January 2004 at 01:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A883 in Falkirk at 01:05 on Thursday 22 January 2004. A 21-year-old female passenger and the 21-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0167, longitude -3.88006, in the FK6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200496E400192
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 883
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 45%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 55%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 10 January 2002
10 m awayRef 200296E619640
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 29 July 2023
11 m awayRef 2023991335109
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 31 December 2007
14 m awayRef 2007960800004
Serious
Car crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 8 July 2001
28 m awayRef 200196E617829
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 5 March 2004
28 m awayRef 200496E400607
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A883 in Falkirk, 24 June 2004
36 m awayRef 200496E401658
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200496E400192 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 2004.