C road crash in Angus DD8 on 15 August 1990 at 08:15 involving an Austin Mini
An Austin Mini and a Leyland bus were involved in a crash on a C road in Angus at 08:15 on Wednesday 15 August 1990. The 26-year-old male driver of the Austin Mini 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
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 1990
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Mini and Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.73241, longitude -2.8417, in the DD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199093902037E
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 2 June 1988
100 m awayRef 19889388E0584
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 3 June 1988
141 m awayRef 19889388E0587
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Angus, 22 March 2002
224 m awayRef 2002930002943
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Angus, 27 April 1987
361 m awayRef 19879387E0424
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Angus, 26 September 2010
382 m awayRef 2010930002784
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 2 July 1993
671 m awayRef 199393933311E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Mini)
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 199093902037E 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 1990.