Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 2 December 2012 at 23:15 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 23:15 on Sunday 2 December 2012. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99756, longitude -3.78356, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012961202258
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 31 March 2007
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Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B803 in Falkirk, 19 September 1994
30 m awayRef 199496PF01849
Slight
Peugeot 508 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 14 January 2022
44 m awayRef 2022991134322
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 7 January 1986
45 m awayRef 198696PF01005
Serious
Car crash on the B8028 in Falkirk, 1 March 1981
45 m awayRef 198196PF01061
Slight
Car crash on the B8080 in Falkirk, 9 May 1986
45 m awayRef 198696PF05077
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2012961202258 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.