Serious A92 crash in Dundee City on 20 May 1990 at 19:25 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on the A92 in Dundee City at 19:25 on Sunday 20 May 1990. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 1990
- Sunday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.475, longitude -2.90742, in the DD5 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199093900412C
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 92
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 28 December 2009
36 m awayRef 2009930000167
Slight
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Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A92 in Dundee City, 23 March 2005
54 m awayRef 2005930001385
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A92 in Dundee City, 27 April 2011
58 m awayRef 2011930001673
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A92 in Dundee City, 8 September 2022
74 m awayRef 2022991217696
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A92 in Dundee City, 24 December 2023
79 m awayRef 2023991392035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- 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 199093900412C 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 1990.