A803 crash in Falkirk on 26 September 2017 at 17:05 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on the A803 in Falkirk at 17:05 on Tuesday 26 September 2017. The 48-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i30 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2017
- Tuesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00743, longitude -3.85518, in the FK4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961701004
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Central
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2010.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 7 August 2010
2 m awayRef 2010961001513
Serious
Volvo crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 17 October 2017
3 m awayRef 2017961701035
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 15 September 2014
6 m awayRef 2014961401535
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 3 October 2013
8 m awayRef 2013961301823
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 3 March 2017
9 m awayRef 2017961700291
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A803 in Falkirk, 7 August 1998
12 m awayRef 199896E818977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017961701004 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.