Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 11 December 2009 at 15:40
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 15:40 on Friday 11 December 2009. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2009
- Friday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00062, longitude -3.78306, 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
- 2009960902852
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2024.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 13 February 2024
1 m awayRef 2024991409543
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 23 February 2013
9 m awayRef 2013961300343
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 8 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200296E202134
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199396BF04869
Slight
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 9 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199396PF03562
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 5 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199896E603303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2009960902852 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.