B9030 crash in Aberdeenshire on 5 August 1997 at 12:00 involving a car
A vehicle and two cars were involved in a crash on the B9030 in Aberdeenshire at 12:00 on Tuesday 5 August 1997. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, the 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 and a 26-year-old female passenger in vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1997
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66419, longitude -2.44918, in the AB45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997929703497
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9030
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2014.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 27 April 2014
46 m awayRef 2014921400490
Slight
Car crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 1 June 2001
200 m awayRef 2001920101990
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 20 August 2001
200 m awayRef 2001920102780
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 24 August 2002
224 m awayRef 2002920202771
Slight
Car crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 26 July 1980
224 m awayRef 1980928004523
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B9031 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 2018
298 m awayRef 2018921800344
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- 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 1997929703497 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.