Unclassified road crash in Stirling FK8 on 1 May 2008 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stirling at 17:00 on Thursday 1 May 2008. The 28-year-old female driver of the car and the 49-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2008
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12547, longitude -3.95358, in the FK8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960801136
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1999.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 3 October 1999
28 m awayRef 199996E080262
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the B8052 in Stirling, 26 August 1990
36 m awayRef 199096KS06962
Slight
Car crash on the B8051 in Stirling, 6 October 1986
45 m awayRef 198696MS06250
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 23 August 1981
57 m awayRef 198196LS06187
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 29 June 1982
57 m awayRef 198296LS06147
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 27 September 1985
72 m awayRef 198596MS06259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2008960801136 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 2008.