Unclassified road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 17 December 1981 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dundee City at 17:00 on Thursday 17 December 1981. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.48145, longitude -3.00337, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19819381C2137
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1995.
Slight
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Serious
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Serious
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 17 October 1984
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Serious
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 1 January 1981
At the same spotRef 19819381C0003
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A90 in Dundee City, 26 April 2000
100 m awayRef 2000930001372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19819381C2137 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dundee City road accident statistics for 1981.