Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK2 on 18 November 2017 at 20:15 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 20:15 on Saturday 18 November 2017. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00735, longitude -3.77918, in the FK2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falkirk South, Falkirk, FK1 1RE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961701097
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2013.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 29 July 2013
34 m awayRef 2013961301354
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 21 February 1998
42 m awayRef 199896E602595
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 1 June 2017
60 m awayRef 2017961700662
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 24 August 1987
65 m awayRef 198796QF18265
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 30 July 1989
101 m awayRef 198996PF18369
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 January 2017
108 m awayRef 2017961700063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2017961701097 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.