Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK3 on 15 December 2015 at 10:15 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 10:15 on Tuesday 15 December 2015. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00179, longitude -3.71595, in the FK3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grangemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grangemouth, Falkirk, FK3 0DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015961502045
- 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
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 87 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1980.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 8 November 1980
87 m awayRef 198096SG03160
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 9 February 1987
111 m awayRef 198796SG03024
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 13 December 1985
112 m awayRef 198596SG03182
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 January 1983
112 m awayRef 198396SG03007
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 25 September 2009
114 m awayRef 2009960902210
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 February 2006
116 m awayRef 2006960600544
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2015961502045 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.