Serious unclassified road crash in Angus DD8 on 28 July 2024 at 09:45 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Angus at 09:45 on Sunday 28 July 2024. A 37-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was seriously injured and a 48-year-old female passenger in the Toyota RAV4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jul 2024
- Sunday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota RAV4 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.71552, longitude -2.88787, in the DD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991473033
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a fatal crash on 20 August 2023.
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 20 August 2023
1 m awayRef 2023991345830
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 26 May 1992
67 m awayRef 199293922608E
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Angus, 8 April 1996
67 m awayRef 199693961802E
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on a C road in Angus, 4 December 1997
153 m awayRef 199793975966E
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Angus, 24 September 1990
207 m awayRef 199093902732E
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 6 October 1984
287 m awayRef 19849384E1131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,261 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024991473033 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 2024.