M80 crash in Falkirk on 4 September 2008 at 16:30 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2008
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99807, longitude -3.92871, in the FK4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960802257
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 80
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 80
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2014.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 21 December 2014
10 m awayRef 2014961402186
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 15 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006960600137
Slight
Lorry crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 19 March 2005
14 m awayRef 2005960500683
Slight
Car crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 19 May 1986
22 m awayRef 198696BF12094
Serious
Car crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 14 December 1983
81 m awayRef 198396BF12110
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 5 June 2014
99 m awayRef 2014961400921
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2008960802257 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.