Unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK1 on 2 December 2017 at 17:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Two Vauxhall Astras were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 17:40 on Saturday 2 December 2017. The 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0038, longitude -3.8301, in the FK1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017961701118
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 27 April 1990
7 m awayRef 199096QF07197
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 27 September 1985
26 m awayRef 198596PF07325
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 14 October 1992
31 m awayRef 199296RF07867
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 6 May 1994
54 m awayRef 199496RF07702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 5 June 1988
65 m awayRef 198896PF07230
Serious
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 12 March 1991
78 m awayRef 199196QF07534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017961701118 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.