Serious A92 crash in Angus on 19 April 2015 at 15:00 involving a Saab 9-3
A motorcycle and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A92 in Angus at 15:00 on Sunday 19 April 2015. The 52-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 6-year-old female passenger in the Saab 9-3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.61378, longitude -2.55919, in the DD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000246
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 92
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 January 2021.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A92 in Angus, 23 January 2021
4 m awayRef 2021991016488
Slight
Lorry crash on the A92 in Angus, 20 April 2015
6 m awayRef 2015930000256
Fatal
Ford crash on the A92 in Angus, 28 February 1992
29 m awayRef 199293921091E
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A92 in Angus, 18 March 1999
29 m awayRef 199993991459E
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A92 in Angus, 1 April 2001
76 m awayRef 2001930001204
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A92 in Angus, 12 June 1999
79 m awayRef 199993992710E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- 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 2015930000246 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.