B956 crash in Angus on 19 April 2014 at 17:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the B956 in Angus at 17:20 on Saturday 19 April 2014. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.67339, longitude -3.00308, in the DD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirriemuir. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirriemuir and Dean, Angus, DD8 4ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014930000204
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 956
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B956 in Angus, 2 February 2004
7 m awayRef 2004930001239
Serious
Volvo crash on the B956 in Angus, 2 March 2007
11 m awayRef 2007930001533
Slight
Leyland crash on the B956 in Angus, 6 February 2007
19 m awayRef 2007930001360
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 23 May 2009
44 m awayRef 2009930002021
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 26 June 1999
53 m awayRef 199993992870E
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 20 April 1979
53 m awayRef 19799379E0418
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2014930000204 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 2014.