A803 crash in Falkirk on 17 December 2014 at 17:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 17:15 on Wednesday 17 December 2014. A 64-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0021, longitude -3.80253, 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 5JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014961402161
- 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
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2006.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 2 August 2006
4 m awayRef 2006960602068
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 21 June 2005
4 m awayRef 2005960501464
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 28 September 2015
5 m awayRef 2015961501547
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 20 November 2012
11 m awayRef 2012961202176
Serious
Skoda 120 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 6 March 1990
30 m awayRef 199096RF05079
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 13 May 1987
57 m awayRef 198796PF05135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014961402161 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 2014.