C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 28 February 2008 at 19:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on a C road in Dundee City at 19:30 on Thursday 28 February 2008. The 19-year-old male driver 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
- 28 Feb 2008
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.45866, longitude -3.0388, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008930001282
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 5 September 1981
22 m awayRef 19819381C1453
Slight
Car crash on the B911 in Dundee City, 26 April 1994
22 m awayRef 199493942173C
Slight
Morris Mini crash on a C road in Dundee City, 20 October 1991
22 m awayRef 199193915328C
Serious
Fiat Regata crash on the B911 in Dundee City, 19 July 1994
22 m awayRef 199493943407C
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B911 in Dundee City, 27 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199793976406C
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Dundee City, 27 February 1986
22 m awayRef 19869386C0397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2008930001282 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 2008.