Serious A803 crash in Falkirk on 15 August 2013 at 19:20 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and an Audi Q3 were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 19:20 on Thursday 15 August 2013. The 19-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was seriously injured and the 55-year-old male driver of the Audi Q3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Audi Q3
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00721, longitude -3.85653, in the FK4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013961301473
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2012.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 2 April 2012
23 m awayRef 2012961200574
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 2 July 2013
28 m awayRef 2013961301183
Serious
Ford P100 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 5 October 1994
40 m awayRef 199496RF07774
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 12 January 1985
40 m awayRef 198596QF07009
Fatal
Van crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 10 November 1980
64 m awayRef 198096YF07108
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 18 July 2009
74 m awayRef 2009960901634
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q3)
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 2013961301473 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 2013.