C road crash in Angus DD8 on 16 February 2008 at 19:11 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Angus at 19:11 on Saturday 16 February 2008. The 70-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, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2008
- Saturday, 19:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61478, longitude -2.7726, 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
- 2008930001259
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 2015.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Angus, 5 December 2015
47 m awayRef 2015930000579
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 8 April 1988
54 m awayRef 19889388E0382
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Angus, 14 October 2003
85 m awayRef 2003930004020
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Angus, 10 February 2012
85 m awayRef 2012930001033
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Angus, 22 February 2010
85 m awayRef 2010930000799
Serious
Volvo 940 crash on a C road in Angus, 17 August 2004
92 m awayRef 2004930003758
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008930001259 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 2008.