A90 crash in Dundee City on 2 November 2003 at 10:30 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class crashed on the A90 in Dundee City at 10:30 on Sunday 2 November 2003. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2003
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.47302, longitude -3.0517, in the DD2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lochee, Dundee City, DD2 4SY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003930004480
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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 6 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 6 May 1989
10 m awayRef 19899389C0752
Serious
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 12 August 1981
10 m awayRef 19819381C1339
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A90 in Dundee City, 21 May 2022
34 m awayRef 2022991179876
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on the A90 in Dundee City, 4 November 2005
64 m awayRef 2005930004044
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A90 in Dundee City, 9 September 2018
64 m awayRef 2018930000325
Slight
Kawasaki VN crash on the A90 in Dundee City, 21 September 2025
66 m awayRef 2025991657894
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- 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 2003930004480 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 2003.