C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 5 December 2006 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dundee City at 20:00 on Tuesday 5 December 2006. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2006
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.47286, longitude -3.02815, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lochee, Dundee City, DD2 4UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006930000178
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2004.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Dundee City, 2 April 2004
10 m awayRef 2004930001994
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dundee City, 29 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002930005676
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Dundee City, 10 July 2006
30 m awayRef 2006930002644
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 16 September 2017
43 m awayRef 2017930000338
Serious
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 10 October 1983
57 m awayRef 19839383C1598
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dundee City, 29 June 1985
57 m awayRef 19859385C1042
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2006930000178 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 2006.