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Serious A93 crash in Moray on 12 January 1997 at 17:30 involving a Rover Range Rover

A Rover Range Rover crashed on the A93 in Moray at 17:30 on Sunday 12 January 1997. A 25-year-old male passenger 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
Serious
Date
12 Jan 1997
Sunday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.942, longitude -3.4102, in the AB35 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Moray

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997929700174
Council area
Moray
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
93
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, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years
    Engine capacity
    3,528 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Range Rover)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1997929700174 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 1997.