Serious unclassified road crash in Dundee City DD4 on 28 July 2001 at 17:20 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City at 17:20 on Saturday 28 July 2001. The 40-year-old male driver of the car, a 31-year-old female passenger in the car and a 45-year-old male passenger in the car were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jul 2001
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.48359, longitude -2.94352, in the DD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the East End, Dundee City, DD4 8BR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001930002084
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2020.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 1 August 2020
11 m awayRef 2020990969031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 10 December 1988
22 m awayRef 19889388C1967
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 24 April 1979
22 m awayRef 19799379C0842
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 15 April 2013
25 m awayRef 2013930000605
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 9 July 2018
83 m awayRef 2018930000232
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 15 August 1985
92 m awayRef 19859385C1318
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2001930002084 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 2001.