A803 crash in Falkirk on 11 October 2013 at 17:40 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 17:40 on Friday 11 October 2013. The 46-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2013
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99991, longitude -3.78086, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013961301871
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1987.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 5 July 1987
6 m awayRef 198796PF01197
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 8 October 1993
15 m awayRef 199396PF01918
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 26 January 2001
15 m awayRef 200196E616239
Serious
Bus crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 7 November 2002
17 m awayRef 200296E203209
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 9 June 1998
25 m awayRef 199896E608124
Serious
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 8 February 1999
28 m awayRef 199996E619293
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2013961301871 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.