Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK6 on 22 April 2017 at 15:40 involving an Audi A5
A bicycle and an Audi A5 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 15:40 on Saturday 22 April 2017. The 15-year-old male cyclist was 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
- 22 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0097, longitude -3.90928, in the FK6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Denny. 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
- 2017961700513
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 July 1984
57 m awayRef 198496XF10106
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 September 1983
57 m awayRef 198396XF10103
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 June 1985
102 m awayRef 198596XF12120
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 November 1982
127 m awayRef 198296XF10189
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A872 in Falkirk, 16 December 1992
175 m awayRef 199296XF09616
Slight
Honda NE50M crash on the A872 in Falkirk, 4 July 1990
186 m awayRef 199096XF10018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2017961700513 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 2017.