B999 crash in Aberdeenshire on 1 February 1986 at 23:40 involving a van
A van crashed on the B999 in Aberdeenshire at 23:40 on Saturday 1 February 1986. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 1986
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.32353, longitude -2.17434, in the AB41 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986928600786
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 999
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 12 July 1982.
Fatal
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982928204139
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 18 March 2012
22 m awayRef 2012921200997
Slight
Van crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 18 December 2018
82 m awayRef 2018921800649
Serious
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 22 February 1981, ref 1981928101208
100 m awayRef 1981928101208
Serious
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 22 February 1981, ref 1981928101198
100 m awayRef 1981928101198
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 31 July 2003
141 m awayRef 2003920302230
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1986928600786 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 1986.