B803 crash in Falkirk on 12 September 2008 at 17:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B803 in Falkirk at 17:50 on Friday 12 September 2008. The 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1, a 17-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and the 37-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2008
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98479, longitude -3.81471, in the FK1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008960802272
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 803
- 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
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2003.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 21 November 2003
14 m awayRef 200396E303105
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 November 2006
14 m awayRef 2006960603257
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 30 May 2000
22 m awayRef 200096E403454
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 6 September 2016
31 m awayRef 2016961601372
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 1 February 1990
54 m awayRef 199096QF05002
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 3 August 1991
134 m awayRef 199196PF05562
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2008960802272 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.