A96 crash in Aberdeenshire on 14 March 1981 at 15:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A96 in Aberdeenshire at 15:30 on Saturday 14 March 1981. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1981
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.32192, longitude -2.45827, in the AB51 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981928101559
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 96
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2025.
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A96 in Aberdeenshire, 29 August 2025
22 m awayRef 2025991652130
Serious
Yamaha R6 crash on the A96 in Aberdeenshire, 29 July 2000
100 m awayRef 2000920002678
Serious
Car crash on the A96 in Aberdeenshire, 11 January 1985
141 m awayRef 1985928500237
Fatal
Car crash on the A96 in Aberdeenshire, 16 November 1984
141 m awayRef 1984928407676
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 10 June 1979
200 m awayRef 1979927903737
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A96 in Aberdeenshire, 24 October 1985
200 m awayRef 1985928507321
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981928101559 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 1981.