Two Angus car accidents happened on the same road on Thursday prompting calls for better gritting in the area.
An off-duty policeman skidded into a drystone dyke in the icy Letham Den area around 8am, and a family car went headfirst into the adjacent bridge soon after.
The family a couple and their child escaped injury, as did the policeman.
However resident Mike McPherson said the incidents highlight the dangerous nature of the Den, with a road turning sharply at the bottom of a hill and with a tendency to freeze quickly.
”It’s like a skating rink since the council took away our grit bin two years ago,” he said. ”Just last week a car went through my neighbour’s wall and into the field.
”This morning a van got stuck before the gritter came past, then a policeman heavily damaged his car.”
The low-lying Den is near the Vinney Burn and is often damp, while the sharp turn can be enough to cause accidents even without ice.
Mr McPherson was working some distance away and only became aware of the second accident around 15 minutes later as he was alerted by the crying of the couple’s child.
”It’s only a matter of time before someone is killed here, over the movement of a grit bin,” he said.
A van and a lorry were left jammed together after a smash on the outskirts of Dundee on Thursday.
The vehicles came together as they headed north on the A90 at Shielhill Farm near to Tealing.
The crash happened at around 8.15am and the outside lane of the dual carriageway was blocked as police attended the scene.
Motorists heading north were able to carry on their journeys by going single file around the collision.
A recovery unit removed the van and lorry from the road at around 9.30am when both were uplifted.
Neither driver was injured in the collision.