Unclassified road crash in Angus DD10 on 21 December 2011 at 08:10 involving a taxi
A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Angus at 08:10 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.71936, longitude -2.46153, in the DD10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Montrose. It is one of the crashes that make up the Montrose and District, Angus, DD10 9BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20119300D0274
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 12 December 1980
54 m awayRef 19809380E1349
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 26 April 1997
54 m awayRef 199793971751E
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 15 May 1981
54 m awayRef 19819381E0489
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 30 March 1982
54 m awayRef 19829382E0378
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 21 February 2001
54 m awayRef 2001930001040
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 29 June 1984
54 m awayRef 19849384E0751
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 20119300D0274 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.