B911 crash in Dundee City on 27 December 1997 at 08:55 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B911 in Dundee City at 08:55 on Saturday 27 December 1997. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1997
- Saturday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4587, longitude -3.03847, in the DD2 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
- 199793976406C
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 911
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 5 September 1981
At the same spotRef 19819381C1453
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 27 February 1986
At the same spotRef 19869386C0397
Slight
Morris Mini crash on a C road in Dundee City, 20 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199193915328C
Serious
Fiat Regata crash on the B911 in Dundee City, 19 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199493943407C
Slight
Car crash on the B911 in Dundee City, 26 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199493942173C
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Dundee City, 28 February 2008
22 m awayRef 2008930001282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 199793976406C 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.