Serious A803 crash in Falkirk on 14 February 2015 at 02:50 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit two pedestrians on the A803 in Falkirk at 02:50 on Saturday 14 February 2015. A 35-year-old male pedestrian and a 24-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00062, longitude -3.7835, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015961500275
- 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
- One way street
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 1 March 2015
7 m awayRef 2015961500372
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 8 January 2003
11 m awayRef 200396E300085
Slight
Car crash on the A904 in Falkirk, 16 November 1986
13 m awayRef 198696QF03446
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 February 1993
20 m awayRef 199396BF04869
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 27 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199796PF03675
Slight
Bus crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 5 August 2000
22 m awayRef 200096E610512
Vehicles involved (1)
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015961500275 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.