Serious A904 crash in Falkirk on 15 January 2008 at 17:30 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A904 in Falkirk at 17:30 on Tuesday 15 January 2008. The 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0009, longitude -3.77633, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk South, Falkirk, FK1 1RE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960800153
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 904
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 8080
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 May 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 17 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198896PF01202
Fatal
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 25 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198796PF01316
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 21 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200396E303459
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 30 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200396E302610
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 3 July 2023
5 m awayRef 2023991325532
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 3 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199396PF03848
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 2008960800153 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 2008.