A92 crash in Angus on 22 December 2002 at 04:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A92 in Angus at 04:20 on Sunday 22 December 2002. A 24-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2002
- Sunday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.56956, longitude -2.57769, 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 5JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930000538
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 92
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 20 January 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A92 in Angus, 20 January 1993
At the same spotRef 199393930398E
Slight
Car crash on the A92 in Angus, 29 August 2000
At the same spotRef 2000930002702
Slight
Car crash on the A92 in Angus, 2 March 1979
At the same spotRef 19799379E0258
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 7 September 1987
At the same spotRef 19879387E0981
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A92 in Angus, 3 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011930000015
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A92 in Angus, 7 December 2019
21 m awayRef 2019930907195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 2002930000538 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.