B994 crash in Aberdeenshire on 6 May 1997 at 07:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B994 in Aberdeenshire at 07:00 on Tuesday 6 May 1997. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 1997
- Tuesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.23672, longitude -2.41911, in the AB51 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997929701980
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 994
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 17 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993929304065
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 16 November 2002
At the same spotRef 2002920203727
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 25 February 2020
67 m awayRef 2020990935095
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 5 March 2012
78 m awayRef 2012921200849
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 23 December 1998
100 m awayRef 1998929805560
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B994 in Aberdeenshire, 5 July 1992
100 m awayRef 1992929204101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 1997929701980 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.