A935 crash in Angus on 4 November 1998 at 19:55 involving a Mercedes Sprinter
A Mercedes Sprinter crashed on the A935 in Angus at 19:55 on Wednesday 4 November 1998. The 30-year-old male driver and a 26-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1998
- Wednesday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.72347, longitude -2.49999, in the DD10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199893985140E
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 935
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 December 1998.
Serious
Car crash on the A935 in Angus, 10 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199893985912E
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A935 in Angus, 16 December 2006
81 m awayRef 200693DUP0575
Slight
Van crash on the A935 in Angus, 17 July 1981
100 m awayRef 19819381E0714
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A935 in Angus, 29 September 2009
126 m awayRef 2009930003318
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A935 in Angus, 9 June 2004
130 m awayRef 2004930002963
Serious
Car crash on the A935 in Angus, 8 April 1982
141 m awayRef 19829382E0396
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 199893985140E 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 1998.