Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK4 on 19 July 2015 at 14:40 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 14:40 on Sunday 19 July 2015. The 20-year-old female driver of the Citroen C1 and the 37-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 19 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00027, longitude -3.90638, in the FK4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banknock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Denny and Banknock, Falkirk, FK6 5LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015961501181
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 803
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1996.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 19 June 1996
11 m awayRef 199696XF11146
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 16 July 1999
17 m awayRef 199996E627206
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 26 February 2008
21 m awayRef 2008960800598
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 17 November 1984
32 m awayRef 198496XF12178
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 25 May 1989
33 m awayRef 198996XF11121
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 20 March 2004
41 m awayRef 200496E400753
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015961501181 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.