Fatal A96 crash in Moray on 28 August 1995 at 20:45 involving a Vauxhall Senator
A Vauxhall Senator crashed on the A96 in Moray at 20:45 on Monday 28 August 1995. A 28-year-old male passenger was killed and the 29-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
- Fatal
- Date
- 28 Aug 1995
- Monday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Senator
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.64845, longitude -3.3822, in the IV30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995929504103
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 96
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 April 2020.
Serious
MAN crash on the A96 in Moray, 15 April 2020
5 m awayRef 2020990946373
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A96 in Moray, 10 December 1998
100 m awayRef 1998929805411
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A96 in Moray, 5 July 1995
100 m awayRef 1995929503373
Serious
Car crash on the A96 in Moray, 29 December 1985
100 m awayRef 1985928509371
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A96 in Moray, 25 August 1996
100 m awayRef 1996929603635
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A96 in Moray, 15 May 1981
100 m awayRef 1981928102849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Senator
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Senator)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Senator)
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 1995929504103 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Moray road accident statistics for 1995.