C road crash in Angus DD8 on 20 December 2004 at 15:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on a C road in Angus at 15:20 on Monday 20 December 2004. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2004
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.60455, longitude -2.78494, in the DD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004930005370
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 October 1997.
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 1 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199793974608E
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Mercedes crash on a C road in Angus, 22 October 1994
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Angus, 17 October 1995
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Serious
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Angus, 26 January 1999
22 m awayRef 199993990582E
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 17 October 2025
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Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on a C road in Angus, 21 December 2004
54 m awayRef 2004930000095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2004930005370 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 2004.