C road crash in Dundee City DD3 on 6 August 2013 at 16:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in Dundee City at 16:10 on Tuesday 6 August 2013. A 68-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2013
- Tuesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.49362, longitude -3.00776, in the DD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Strathmartine, Dundee City, DD3 9QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013930001103
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 24 December 2000
61 m awayRef 2000930000010
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dundee City, 24 November 1998
69 m awayRef 199893985540C
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 19 December 1991
69 m awayRef 199193916810C
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 4 June 1999
69 m awayRef 199993992614C
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dundee City, 28 January 1985
69 m awayRef 19859385C0170
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dundee City, 28 April 1997
69 m awayRef 199793971854C
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013930001103 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.