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Serious A944 crash in Aberdeenshire on 10 July 1980 at 14:00 involving a lorry

A lorry crashed on the A944 in Aberdeenshire at 14:00 on Thursday 10 July 1980. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Jul 1980
Thursday, 14:00
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.25097, longitude -2.8104, in the AB33 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980928004148
Council area
Aberdeenshire
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
944
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Lane or location
    Entering lay-by or hard shoulder
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)

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 1980928004148 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeenshire road accident statistics for 1980.