B984 crash in Aberdeen City on 15 May 1996 at 17:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B984 in Aberdeen City at 17:30 on Wednesday 15 May 1996. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1996
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16543, longitude -2.1769, in the AB16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996929602142
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 984
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B984 in Aberdeen City, 24 October 1982
100 m awayRef 1982928206705
Slight
Van crash on the B9840 in Aberdeen City, 17 April 1981
100 m awayRef 1981928102254
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B984 in Aberdeen City, 29 May 1990
141 m awayRef 1990929003497
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 4 July 2010
150 m awayRef 2010921002561
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 29 November 1981
200 m awayRef 1981928107767
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 2 April 1983
200 m awayRef 1983928302061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1996929602142 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 1996.