A908 crash in Clackmannanshire on 5 November 2020 at 16:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire at 16:15 on Thursday 5 November 2020. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 5 Nov 2020
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12346, longitude -3.78127, in the FK10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alloa. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clackmannanshire Central, Clackmannanshire, FK10 3NJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Clackmannanshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020991002410
- Council area
- Clackmannanshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 908
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2013.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 24 January 2013
8 m awayRef 2013961300132
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 13 July 2012
13 m awayRef 2012961201290
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 5 June 2012
43 m awayRef 2012961201027
Serious
Taxi crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 1 December 1983
50 m awayRef 198396EA05182
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 22 February 2012
61 m awayRef 2012961200339
Serious
Mini One crash on the A908 in Clackmannanshire, 16 January 2014
70 m awayRef 2014961400089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020991002410 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Clackmannanshire road accident statistics for 2020.