Unclassified road crash in Angus DD5 on 1 December 2016 at 07:20 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van crashed on an unclassified road in Angus at 07:20 on Thursday 1 December 2016. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.54251, longitude -2.84048, in the DD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016930000002
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 2018.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 13 December 2018
80 m awayRef 2018930000435
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Angus, 30 January 2003
115 m awayRef 2003930001082
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Angus, 11 December 2017
209 m awayRef 2017930000459
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 18 December 2021
474 m awayRef 2021991124903
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 9 August 1980
571 m awayRef 19809380E0796
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B978 in Angus, 10 August 2010
580 m awayRef 2010930002373
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016930000002 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 2016.