Serious A935 crash in Angus on 16 July 1981 at 10:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A935 in Angus at 10:25 on Thursday 16 July 1981. The 33-year-old female driver and a 6-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and a 4-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 1981
- Thursday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.72208, longitude -2.61108, in the DD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19819381E0713
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 935
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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 13 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A935 in Angus, 13 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199193914707E
Serious
Car crash on the A935 in Angus, 26 October 1979
At the same spotRef 19799379E1099
Slight
Car crash on the A935 in Angus, 8 December 1979
At the same spotRef 19799379E1314
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A935 in Angus, 12 June 2003
32 m awayRef 2003930002855
Fatal
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A935 in Angus, 22 October 2003
41 m awayRef 2003930004314
Serious
Renault Kadjar crash on the A935 in Angus, 10 July 2024
50 m awayRef 2024991466152
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 19819381E0713 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Angus road accident statistics for 1981.