Serious A978 crash in Aberdeen City on 22 November 1992 at 01:10 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera hit a pedestrian on the A978 in Aberdeen City at 01:10 on Sunday 22 November 1992. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 1992
- Sunday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.15292, longitude -2.12395, in the AB25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992929207474
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 978
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 989
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 8 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985928506955
Slight
Car crash on the A978 in Aberdeen City, 23 January 1989
At the same spotRef 1989928900614
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 13 December 1996
At the same spotRef 1996929605892
Serious
Dacia Logan crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 18 August 2025
58 m awayRef 2025991648421
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 18 September 2014
58 m awayRef 2014921401521
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A944 in Aberdeen City, 21 June 2011
58 m awayRef 2011921102198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1992929207474 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeen City road accident statistics for 1992.