A90 crash in Angus on 18 December 2011 at 12:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Vauxhall Frontera were involved in a crash on the A90 in Angus at 12:00 on Sunday 18 December 2011. The 56-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.77716, longitude -2.60231, in the DD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011930000271
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A90 in Angus, 19 October 1994
22 m awayRef 199493945062E
Slight
Car crash on the A94 in Angus, 4 March 1980
22 m awayRef 19809380E0234
Slight
Car crash on the A94 in Angus, 17 August 1979
81 m awayRef 19799379E0871
Serious
Car crash on the A94 in Angus, 11 November 1979
92 m awayRef 19799379E1185
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A90 in Angus, 4 July 2010
120 m awayRef 2010930001944
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A90 in Angus, 27 December 1996
120 m awayRef 199693966303E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,165 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2011930000271 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 2011.