Unclassified road crash in Falkirk EH51 on 2 November 2009 at 00:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 00:00 on Monday 2 November 2009. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 2 Nov 2009
- Monday, 00:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01144, longitude -3.58994, in the EH51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bo'ness.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009960902505
- Council area
- Falkirk
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2004.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 9 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200496E401510
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 2 August 1993
71 m awayRef 199396VG16877
Serious
Nissan Stanza crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 February 1992
80 m awayRef 199296VG17007
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A993 in Falkirk, 11 October 1990
95 m awayRef 199096VG17502
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 7 July 1998
100 m awayRef 199896E443688
Slight
Car crash on the A993 in Falkirk, 13 October 2002
104 m awayRef 200296E202540
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2009960902505 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 2009.