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A90 crash in Dundee City on 26 September 1996 at 17:05 involving a Renault lorry

A Renault lorry and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A90 in Dundee City at 17:05 on Thursday 26 September 1996. The 27-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Sep 1996
Thursday, 17:05
Vehicles
2
Renault and Citroen AX
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.48334, longitude -2.99206, in the DD3 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
199693964596C
Council area
Dundee City
Police force
Tayside

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
90
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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 22 December 1995.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Renault

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

  • Vehicle 2: Citroen AX

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    954 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)

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 199693964596C 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 1996.