Serious C road crash in Dundee City DD2 on 23 November 2012 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dundee City at 18:00 on Friday 23 November 2012. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2012
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46624, longitude -3.03512, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930002576
- 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
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 July 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 29 July 1981
36 m awayRef 19819381C1230
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Dundee City, 24 May 2001
57 m awayRef 2001930001739
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Dundee City, 4 February 1992
85 m awayRef 199293920585C
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Dundee City, 8 January 1997
124 m awayRef 199793970115C
Slight
Lada Riva crash on a C road in Dundee City, 7 December 1990
124 m awayRef 199093904430C
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 28 June 1979
124 m awayRef 19799379C1296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2012930002576 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 2012.