A90 crash in Angus on 21 December 2012 at 07:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A90 in Angus at 07:20 on Friday 21 December 2012. The 31-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2012
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.52931, longitude -2.94466, in the DD4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930000103
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2015.
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the A90 in Angus, 26 January 2015
5 m awayRef 2015930000127
Slight
Volvo C 30 crash on the A90 in Angus, 4 May 2015
7 m awayRef 2015930000274
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A90 in Angus, 12 November 2004
10 m awayRef 2004930004818
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A90 in Angus, 6 June 2011
10 m awayRef 2011930001900
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A90 in Angus, 24 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011930002092
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A90 in Angus, 3 January 2013
11 m awayRef 2013930000131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 2012930000103 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 2012.