Taxi Driver Online

This is both unremarkable and interesting at the same time (but, of course, stuff like this closer to home always seems a bit more interesting). So:

Unsurprising: Happened 2.30 am on Sunday, ie late on a Saturday night shift.

Surprising: Taxi collided with motorcycle with pillion passenger

Unsurprising: Strathmartine Road is at least two miles long, and if you'd have to guess where something like this would take place, it would be precisely where it did happen - the junction with Gilburn Road/Camperdown Road.


Two people taken to hospital after crash between taxi and motorbike in Dundee

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/du ... ad-dundee/


Image: DC Thomson

Strathmartine Road was closed for nearly seven hours after the crash.

Two people were taken to hospital after a crash involving a taxi and a motorbike in Dundee.

The crash happened on Strathmartine Road at around 2.30am on Sunday.

Both the driver and passenger of the motorbike were taken to Ninewells for treatment.

Their condition is unknown.

The road was closed following the crash and reopened at around 9.15am.

One witness described the incident as a “really bad crash”.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were called around 2.30am on Sunday, July 23, to a report of a crash involving a car and a motorcycle on Strathmartine Road, Dundee.

“Emergency services attended and two people, the rider and pillion passenger of the motorcycle, were taken to Ninewells Hospital by ambulance.

“The road was closed and re-opened at around 9.15am.”


Image: DC Thomson

Junction looks fairly bog standard here, but it's definitely a black spot:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.48682 ... ?entry=ttu

One of my pals in the St Andrews trade lives up that way, and he was involved in quite a bad smash when someone pulled out of Gilburn Road to the right in the StreetView. He was heading towards the city centre, ie approaching from top camera.

Luckily, he had a dash cam fitted, so to that extent it was an open and shut case - he showed me the footage on his phone. (Although, as you'd expect with insurance and the like, it was an utter nightmare for him getting it all sorted out.)

Anyway, if I had to guess then at that time the taxi driver at the weekend would have been heading in the same direction towards the city centre, and the bike would have pulled out of either Camperdown road to the left, or Gilburn Road to the right.

Very probably no other traffic or witnesses around at that location at that time. And doubly unusual that it was a motorcyle with pillion passenger involved, although the involvement of a taxi at that time certainly isn't particularly suprising.

And there's fair chance it could be a couple of scrotes on an illegal bike. Which maybe explains why the road was closed for seven hours, but who knows

And judging by the damage to the car, it presumably wasn't a low-speed collision either...

That could easily be read as meaning the taxi driver and the pillion passenger. 'Driver' isn't a word I'd use for someone riding a motorcycle


So presumably the taxi driver was uninjured. Looks like the airbags might have saved him from serious injury

That's a lot of damage due to a motorbike.

Someone was defo driving at speed.

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probably both vehicles ! I hope all involved make a full recovery from their injuries.

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