B902 crash in Falkirk on 26 May 2011 at 17:30 involving a Citroen Dispatch van
A Citroen Dispatch van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B902 in Falkirk at 17:30 on Thursday 26 May 2011. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 61-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus 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
- 26 May 2011
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Dispatch and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01846, longitude -3.79254, in the FK2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk North, Falkirk, FK2 7RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011961101079
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 902
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 2001.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B902 in Falkirk, 2 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200196E618660
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B902 in Falkirk, 2 April 2006
14 m awayRef 2006960600956
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 20 January 1993
14 m awayRef 199396BF17828
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B902 in Falkirk, 30 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200396E303546
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B905 in Falkirk, 15 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199796E676505
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B902 in Falkirk, 8 January 2018
33 m awayRef 2018961800010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2011961101079 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 2011.