Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 9 August 2012 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 17:00 on Thursday 9 August 2012. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00288, longitude -3.8255, in the FK1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camelon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk North, Falkirk, FK1 4LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012961201501
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 June 1992
30 m awayRef 199296PF07297
Serious
Citroen AX crash on a C road in Falkirk, 10 December 2004
36 m awayRef 200496E403366
Slight
Car crash on the M80 in Falkirk, 20 April 1981
45 m awayRef 198196BS10028
Slight
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 7 September 1991
50 m awayRef 199196PF07633
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 6 April 1993
57 m awayRef 199396RF07181
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 1 September 1986
67 m awayRef 198696PF07324
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2012961201501 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 2012.