Serious A923 crash in Angus on 29 October 2016 at 18:30 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai crashed on the A923 in Angus at 18:30 on Saturday 29 October 2016. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.5024, longitude -3.02293, in the DD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016930000585
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 923
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 425 metres away, was a fatal crash on 22 June 1986.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Angus, 22 June 1986
425 m awayRef 19869386C1054
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 15 May 2004
462 m awayRef 2004930002545
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 5 July 1986
512 m awayRef 19869386C1105
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on a C road in Angus, 7 September 2009
577 m awayRef 2009930003125
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 20 July 1996
590 m awayRef 199693963382E
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Angus, 12 April 2013
594 m awayRef 2013930000405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016930000585 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.