Serious A85 crash in Dundee City on 1 February 1985 at 11:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A85 in Dundee City at 11:15 on Friday 1 February 1985. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Feb 1985
- Friday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.45446, longitude -3.00753, in the DD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19859385C0197
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2007.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 1 May 2007
41 m awayRef 2007930002085
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 17 February 1998
100 m awayRef 199893980745C
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 7 December 2009
100 m awayRef 2009930000085
Slight
Rover crash on a C road in Dundee City, 13 February 2002
100 m awayRef 2002930001804
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 20 September 2003
100 m awayRef 2003930003944
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 14 October 2025
108 m awayRef 2025991654567
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, 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 19859385C0197 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 1985.