C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 24 December 2002 at 13:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A taxi and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Dundee City at 13:55 on Tuesday 24 December 2002. The 39-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46087, longitude -2.99975, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Dundee City, DD1 5QB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930000327
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1993.
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on a C road in Dundee City, 28 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199393931391C
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dundee City, 16 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199293926666C
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 15 January 1983
10 m awayRef 19839383C0115
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Dundee City, 10 May 1985
10 m awayRef 19859385C0785
Slight
Honda H100S crash on a C road in Dundee City, 19 April 1990
10 m awayRef 19909390C0732
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 3 August 1984
10 m awayRef 19849384C1258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2002930000327 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 2002.