C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 14 August 1997 at 20:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Dundee City at 20:20 on Thursday 14 August 1997. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 1997
- Thursday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46772, longitude -3.03385, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199793973843C
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 28 September 1981
100 m awayRef 19819381C1607
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Dundee City, 18 May 2002
104 m awayRef 2002930003668
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 3 August 1983
141 m awayRef 19839383C1143
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 18 March 1979
141 m awayRef 19799379C0577
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dundee City, 7 January 1997
141 m awayRef 199793970098C
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Dundee City, 10 June 1996
141 m awayRef 199693962731C
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199793973843C 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 1997.