Unclassified road crash in Falkirk EH49 on 25 August 2013 at 16:40 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 16:40 on Sunday 25 August 2013. The 10-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2013
- Sunday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97654, longitude -3.64929, in the EH49 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013961301537
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 17 September 1993
4 m awayRef 199396UG14818
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 14 November 1986
8 m awayRef 198696UG14198
Serious
MG 3 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 18 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024991532009
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 27 December 1989
35 m awayRef 198996UG14259
Fatal
Nissan Almera crash on a C road in Falkirk, 21 March 2009
123 m awayRef 2009960900708
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 April 1999
127 m awayRef 199996E451149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2013961301537 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.