A872 crash in Stirling on 22 December 2011 at 08:20 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A872 in Stirling at 08:20 on Thursday 22 December 2011. The 27-year-old female driver of the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.10002, longitude -3.93782, in the FK7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stirling East, Stirling, FK7 0BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011961102575
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 872
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 8051
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2001.
Serious
Car crash on the A872 in Stirling, 17 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200196E013386
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 21 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198696LS07207
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A872 in Stirling, 24 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200296E013922
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A9 in Stirling, 18 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199896E063744
Slight
Volvo crash on the A872 in Stirling, 6 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007960700953
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A872 in Stirling, 28 January 2013
11 m awayRef 2013961300174
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2011961102575 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 2011.