Serious A980 crash in Aberdeenshire on 7 August 1982 at 04:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A980 in Aberdeenshire at 04:00 on Saturday 7 August 1982. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Aug 1982
- Saturday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.18958, longitude -2.71309, in the AB33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982928204812
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 980
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 118 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 20 January 2015
118 m awayRef 2015921500089
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 8 June 2015
121 m awayRef 2015921500646
Slight
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 15 July 1986
141 m awayRef 1986928604636
Serious
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 1981
361 m awayRef 1981928104115
Fatal
Honda Jazz crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 15 July 2013
374 m awayRef 2013921302659
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 2 October 1987
500 m awayRef 1987928705834
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 1982928204812 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 1982.