A85 crash in Stirling on 9 September 2017 at 20:20 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A85 in Stirling at 20:20 on Saturday 9 September 2017. The 55-year-old male driver of the Mazda 2 and a 55-year-old female passenger in the Mazda 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2017
- Saturday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Ceed and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.39129, longitude -4.20919, in the FK19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961700971
- Council area
- Stirling
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 2022.
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple crash on the A85 in Stirling, 19 June 2022
4 m awayRef 2022991189448
Fatal
Rover 800 Series crash on the A85 in Stirling, 4 December 2000
11 m awayRef 200096E818090
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A85 in Stirling, 13 November 2025
39 m awayRef 2025991668159
Serious
Honda crash on the A85 in Stirling, 4 December 1995
65 m awayRef 199596JK07122
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A85 in Stirling, 19 August 2008
69 m awayRef 2008960802068
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Stirling, 6 June 2008
152 m awayRef 2008960801500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017961700971 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 2017.