B9076 crash in Aberdeenshire on 13 February 1998 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A car and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B9076 in Aberdeenshire at 19:00 on Friday 13 February 1998. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 1998
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.09347, longitude -2.23597, in the AB12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998929800667
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9076
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 979
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 1997.
Serious
Car crash on the B9076 in Aberdeenshire, 19 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997929704085
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B9077 in Aberdeenshire, 23 June 2009
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Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B979 in Aberdeenshire, 6 October 1996
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Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the B979 in Aberdeenshire, 26 November 1995
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Slight
Car crash on the A943 in Aberdeenshire, 13 December 1980
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Slight
Subaru Subaru crash on the B979 in Aberdeen City, 29 June 1997
100 m awayRef 1997929702701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 1998929800667 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 1998.