A904 crash in Falkirk on 25 January 2015 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a car were involved in a crash on the A904 in Falkirk at 14:30 on Sunday 25 January 2015. A 14-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2015
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00352, longitude -3.76879, in the FK2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk North, Falkirk, FK2 9DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015961500167
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 904
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 10 October 1996
6 m awayRef 199696PF18423
Slight
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 21 April 1989
6 m awayRef 198996RF18200
Serious
Taxi crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 14 October 1987
16 m awayRef 198796WF18361
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 16 April 1994
16 m awayRef 199496PF18805
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 23 September 1989
35 m awayRef 198996PF18492
Slight
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 17 July 1985
35 m awayRef 198596PF18228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2015961500167 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 2015.