A933 crash in Angus on 24 December 2002 at 11:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Vauxhall Omega were involved in a crash on the A933 in Angus at 11:00 on Tuesday 24 December 2002. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.56321, longitude -2.59224, in the DD11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arbroath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arbroath East and Lunan, Angus, DD11 1RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930000320
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 933
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 June 1990.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A933 in Angus, 22 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199093900950E
Serious
Scooter crash on the A933 in Angus, 17 April 1986
At the same spotRef 19869386E0465
Slight
Lorry crash on the A933 in Angus, 6 October 1988
At the same spotRef 19889388E1064
Slight
Car crash on the A933 in Angus, 11 May 1983
At the same spotRef 19839383E0538
Serious
Car crash on the B964 in Angus, 9 January 1988
At the same spotRef 19889388E0032
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 28 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199193912145E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2002930000320 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 2002.