B9025 crash in Aberdeenshire on 21 February 1997 at 11:00 involving a Mercedes 300 van
A Mercedes 300 van crashed on the B9025 in Aberdeenshire at 11:00 on Friday 21 February 1997. A 43-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1997
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes 300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.60685, longitude -2.62586, in the AB45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997929700774
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9025
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 December 1995.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B9025 in Aberdeenshire, 2 December 1995
141 m awayRef 1995929505887
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B9025 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 2013
424 m awayRef 2013921301416
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B9025 in Aberdeenshire, 26 April 1997
985 m awayRef 1997929701769
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the A97 in Aberdeenshire, 18 October 2003
994 m awayRef 2003920303113
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A97 in Aberdeenshire, 6 May 1981
1.0 km awayRef 1981928102682
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A97 in Aberdeenshire, 16 March 1995
1.0 km awayRef 1995929501401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 300)
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 1997929700774 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 1997.