A933 crash in Angus on 23 February 2015 at 19:30 involving a MAN lorry
A MAN lorry and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A933 in Angus at 19:30 on Monday 23 February 2015. The 29-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2015
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- MAN and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61736, longitude -2.66373, in the DD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000169
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 933
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 31 October 2014.
Fatal
Audi A6 crash on the A933 in Angus, 31 October 2014
2 m awayRef 2014930000003
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A933 in Angus, 6 March 2020
6 m awayRef 2020990937301
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A933 in Angus, 20 August 2024
6 m awayRef 2024991482013
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A933 in Angus, 6 February 2006
6 m awayRef 2006930000848
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A933 in Angus, 30 January 2003
15 m awayRef 2003930000732
Slight
Honda VFR400R crash on the A933 in Angus, 28 September 1993
44 m awayRef 199393934932E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,419 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2015930000169 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 2015.