A923 crash in Dundee City on 8 February 2020 at 00:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A923 in Dundee City at 00:40 on Saturday 8 February 2020. The 22-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2020
- Saturday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4718, longitude -3.01152, in the DD2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dundee. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lochee, Dundee City, DD2 3FH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dundee City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990928124
- Council area
- Dundee City
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 923
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2018.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Dundee City, 19 January 2018
16 m awayRef 2018930000054
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 27 February 1992
38 m awayRef 199293920938C
Serious
Leyland DAF FT 80 crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 4 October 1993
38 m awayRef 199393935039C
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 28 January 1994
38 m awayRef 199493940304C
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 22 February 1995
38 m awayRef 199593951040C
Slight
Car crash on the A923 in Dundee City, 2 February 1994
38 m awayRef 199493940608C
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020990928124 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 2020.