C road crash in Dundee City DD4 on 23 March 2019 at 00:10 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on a C road in Dundee City at 00:10 on Saturday 23 March 2019. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.47801, longitude -2.94534, 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 8BR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019930000093
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2006.
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12 m awayRef 2006930001242
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Suzuki GSX 650 crash on a C road in Dundee City, 28 September 2012
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Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Dundee City, 12 November 2004
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Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Dundee City, 2 December 2008
16 m awayRef 2008930004631
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Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Dundee City, 24 March 2003
21 m awayRef 2003930001839
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2019930000093 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 2019.