Unclassified road crash in Dundee City DD3 on 15 December 2013 at 00:50 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dundee City at 00:50 on Sunday 15 December 2013. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4746, longitude -2.98877, in the DD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coldside, Dundee City, DD3 6RL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013930000007
- Council area
- Dundee City
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 33%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 67%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 1 November 1982
21 m awayRef 19829382C1784
Serious
JCB crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 16 March 1999
21 m awayRef 199993991383C
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 20 August 1992
21 m awayRef 199293924156C
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Dundee City, 19 October 1998
21 m awayRef 199893984820C
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 10 March 1988
21 m awayRef 19889388C0372
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Dundee City, 8 February 1995
21 m awayRef 199593950647C
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2013930000007 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 2013.