Serious C road crash in Angus DD8 on 23 November 2010 at 02:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Angus at 02:00 on Tuesday 23 November 2010. The 35-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2010
- Tuesday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.66697, longitude -2.90584, in the DD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010930000032
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 1 June 2005
41 m awayRef 2005930002193
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A90 in Angus, 25 July 1999
184 m awayRef 199993993532E
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 30 April 1984
184 m awayRef 19849384E0517
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A94 in Angus, 17 August 1993
184 m awayRef 199393934315E
Serious
Van crash on the A94 in Angus, 4 May 1987
228 m awayRef 19879387E0440
Slight
Ford crash on the A94 in Angus, 1 November 1990
268 m awayRef 199093903655E
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2010930000032 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 2010.