Serious unclassified road crash in Angus DD8 on 5 September 2015 at 08:17 involving an Audi Q5
An Audi Q5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Angus at 08:17 on Saturday 5 September 2015. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 08:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi Q5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.64665, longitude -2.88369, in the DD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Forfar. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forfar and District, Angus, DD8 2EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000450
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 October 1995.
Serious
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 3 October 1995
15 m awayRef 199593954821E
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 15 June 1990
15 m awayRef 199093900767E
Slight
Car crash on the A932 in Angus, 18 October 1980
87 m awayRef 19809380E1066
Slight
Car crash on the A932 in Angus, 19 April 1984
87 m awayRef 19849384E0468
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 15 September 1992
87 m awayRef 199293924690E
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 2 June 1989
87 m awayRef 19899389E0551
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi Q5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015930000450 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.