Unclassified road crash in Stirling FK8 on 7 April 2015 at 19:15 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stirling at 19:15 on Tuesday 7 April 2015. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2015
- Tuesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13143, longitude -3.94332, in the FK8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stirling. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stirling North, Stirling, FK8 1QP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stirling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015961500602
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2015.
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Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 5 November 2015
9 m awayRef 2015961501786
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 21 February 2008
12 m awayRef 2008960800550
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 1 March 2007
12 m awayRef 2007960701333
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Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 29 July 1997
19 m awayRef 199796E053761
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Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 28 March 2008
26 m awayRef 2008960800859
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Stirling, 23 August 1990
68 m awayRef 199096LS06957
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015961500602 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stirling road accident statistics for 2015.