A94 crash in Aberdeenshire on 1 March 1985 at 12:50 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A94 in Aberdeenshire at 12:50 on Friday 1 March 1985. The 25-year-old female driver of the car and a 30-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1985
- Friday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.87211, longitude -2.38385, in the AB30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985928501458
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 94
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 200 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B967 in Aberdeenshire, 18 December 1996
200 m awayRef 1996929605676
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A90 in Aberdeenshire, 1 January 1994
707 m awayRef 1994929400347
Serious
Car crash on the B967 in Aberdeenshire, 23 January 1979
825 m awayRef 1979927900501
Slight
Car crash on the B967 in Aberdeenshire, 22 November 1985
825 m awayRef 1985928508219
Serious
Car crash on the B967 in Aberdeenshire, 11 September 1985
854 m awayRef 1985928506261
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in Aberdeenshire, 6 April 1999
860 m awayRef 1999929901469
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1985928501458 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 1985.