B978 crash in Angus on 24 January 2005 at 16:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B978 in Angus at 16:30 on Monday 24 January 2005. The 18-year-old female driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were 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
- 24 Jan 2005
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.53647, longitude -2.84906, in the DD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005930000516
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 978
- 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2019.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B978 in Angus, 27 October 2019
36 m awayRef 2019930892050
Slight
Car crash on the B978 in Angus, 29 November 1994
81 m awayRef 199493946120E
Serious
Car crash on the B978 in Angus, 26 September 1989
81 m awayRef 19899389E1043
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B978 in Angus, 11 November 1995
120 m awayRef 199593955568E
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B978 in Angus, 28 February 1995
120 m awayRef 199593950987E
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B978 in Angus, 16 February 1992
136 m awayRef 199293921038E
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2005930000516 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.