Unclassified road crash in Angus DD4 on 6 December 2005 at 08:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Angus at 08:15 on Tuesday 6 December 2005. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2005
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.51814, longitude -2.92455, in the DD4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005930000488
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 323 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A929 in Angus, 27 November 1986
323 m awayRef 19869386C1924
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 23 December 2006
342 m awayRef 2006930000630
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 11 August 1993
424 m awayRef 199393933936C
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 2 November 1980
735 m awayRef 19809380C1978
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 30 May 1980
832 m awayRef 19809380C0944
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 27 November 1999
930 m awayRef 1999930000702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2005930000488 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 2005.