Serious B994 crash in Aberdeenshire on 4 July 1990 at 08:00 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
A Volkswagen Scirocco crashed on the B994 in Aberdeenshire at 08:00 on Wednesday 4 July 1990. The 26-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
- 4 Jul 1990
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.23052, longitude -2.38923, in the AB51 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990929004399
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 994
- 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, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 22 June 2017
70 m awayRef 2017921700488
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 16 May 2013
71 m awayRef 2013921301871
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 4 November 2022
82 m awayRef 2022991238221
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 14 May 2023
123 m awayRef 2023991307546
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 12 March 2024
130 m awayRef 2024991419659
Fatal
Car crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 8 January 2000
141 m awayRef 2000920000123
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
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 1990929004399 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 1990.