Serious unclassified road crash in Falkirk FK3 on 5 June 2024 at 21:35 involving a Nissan Note
A motorcycle and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk at 21:35 on Wednesday 5 June 2024. The 51-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 2024
- Wednesday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00259, longitude -3.73021, in the FK3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grangemouth.
Map of where the crash happened in Falkirk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991452413
- Council area
- Falkirk
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 February 1997.
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Falkirk, 15 February 1997
14 m awayRef 199796SG02321
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the M9 in Falkirk, 5 August 1990
45 m awayRef 199096VG02472
Slight
Car crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 17 June 1988
50 m awayRef 198896TG02121
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 30 August 1993
50 m awayRef 199396SG03444
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 20 December 1994
50 m awayRef 199496SG02163
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the A905 in Falkirk, 1 November 2016
54 m awayRef 2016961601691
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
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 2024991452413 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 2024.