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B979 crash in Aberdeenshire on 9 August 1997 at 20:10 involving a car

A car crashed on the B979 in Aberdeenshire at 20:10 on Saturday 9 August 1997. A 4-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
9 Aug 1997
Saturday, 20:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.00096, longitude -2.22221, in the AB39 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997929703535
Council area
Aberdeenshire
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
979
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 August 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 1997929703535 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.