C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 28 September 2007 at 22:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in Dundee City at 22:00 on Friday 28 September 2007. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Octavia taxi and a 46-year-old male passenger in the Skoda Octavia taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2007
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46891, longitude -3.00516, 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 3FH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007930003926
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2009.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on a C road in Dundee City, 13 December 2009
10 m awayRef 2009930000148
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Dundee City, 24 August 2007
10 m awayRef 2007930003561
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 11 July 2008
14 m awayRef 2008930003079
Slight
Car crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 2 February 1985
30 m awayRef 19859385C0201
Serious
Car crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 6 January 1987
30 m awayRef 19879387C0107
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 10 June 1986
30 m awayRef 19869386C0958
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- 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 2007930003926 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 2007.