A90 crash in Dundee City on 25 November 2015 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A90 in Dundee City at 16:30 on Wednesday 25 November 2015. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2015
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.47652, longitude -2.93033, in the DD4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the East End, Dundee City, DD4 7RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000564
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2014.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 1 April 2014
34 m awayRef 2014930000157
Slight
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 16 December 2018
38 m awayRef 2018930000441
Slight
Car crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 31 December 2005
48 m awayRef 2005930DUP371
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 31 December 2005
48 m awayRef 2005930000371
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 11 September 2022
53 m awayRef 2022991218524
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A972 in Dundee City, 13 June 2016
55 m awayRef 2016930000390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015930000564 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 2015.