Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK3 on 6 September 2017 at 12:55 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
A Honda CBR125R motorcycle and an Audi Q3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 12:55 on Wednesday 6 September 2017. The 35-year-old female rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR125R and Audi Q3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01775, longitude -3.7254, 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 9JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961700980
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2005.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 January 2005
16 m awayRef 2005960500271
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 2 November 1996
31 m awayRef 199696SG01190
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 10 March 2012
37 m awayRef 2012961200437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 5 October 1981
45 m awayRef 198196SG02176
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 13 January 1998
62 m awayRef 199896E439924
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 8 September 1980
62 m awayRef 198096SG01125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
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 2017961700980 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.