City meets accident targets

NATIONAL targets to reduce road accidents in Scotland have been met by Dundee City Council.

To continue progress, councillors are being asked to approve new road safety measures across the city costing £150,000.

In June 2009 the Scottish Government set national road accident casualty reduction targets for 2020. Interim targets were also set for 2015.

When compared with the figures for the period 2004-2008, Dundee has reduced casualties by 44% against a 2015 target of 30% and a 2020 target of 40%.

The percentage of people seriously injured over the same period has been reduced by 65% against targets of 43% and 55%.

No children were killed on the local road network in Dundee between the baseline years of 20042008 and 2009-2015.

Road safety statistics and the i mprovement measures will be discussed by the council’s city development committee on Monday.

Steven Fyans, 42, from Charleston, has released CCTV footage of the incident in which a black Peugeot careered into his Subaru Impreza WRX while he was at work at JF Kegs in Kilspindie Road.

Both the male driver and the female passenger appear to be holding fast food packaging as they change seats after the collision.

Office worker Steven only discovered the damage to his car during his lunch break on Friday after parking his vehicle in Charleston Drive.

A DUNDEE man was left raging after he watched a reckless driver crashing into his car before swapping seats with his passenger.

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Steven contacted his work and asked staff to check the CCTV footage, which showed a man losing control of a vehicle before leaving the car to swap seats with his female passenger.

Speaking today, Steven (above) said he was looking at more than £1,000 of repairs to fix his bumper, headlight, grille and front splitter.

He said: “I was on my lunch break on Friday when I first noticed the damage.

“I’d parked the car in Charleston Drive and initially thought I’d damaged it during the journey.

“The next thing I thought that maybe a delivery driver had collided with my car.

“I was raging when I saw the footage — the people in the car don’t look like they have a care in the world.

“It looks like they are both eating a McDonalds meal — you can see the food packaging in their hands as they switch seats.”

The 40-second clip was uploaded online by Steven in the hope of identifying the culprits who proceeded to reverse away seconds after crashing into his car.

He said: “I understand accidents happen but it’s common decency to at least try to contact the other driver or leave a note with your details.

“My car isn’t parked on the main road and the guy has clearly lost control of the car.

“There is no one in sight so they make a quick getaway.

“They don’t even look to see if the car is damaged.”

Steven, who bought the car for just over £9,000 two-and-a-half years ago, said he’s looking at considerable costs to repair the car.

He said: “I reckon I’m at least looking at £1,000 worth of repairs to fix the damage.”

A spokesman for Police Scotland said: “Police Scotland is following positive lines of inquiry into a hit-andrun vehicle collision which occurred in Kilspindie Road, Dundee, on Friday.”

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