A981 crash in Aberdeenshire on 5 October 1998 at 16:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A981 in Aberdeenshire at 16:15 on Monday 5 October 1998. The 22-year-old male driver was 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 Oct 1998
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66049, longitude -2.04188, in the AB43 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998929804178
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 981
- 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, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2013.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 18 June 2013
60 m awayRef 2013921302286
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 20 November 1999
316 m awayRef 1999929904345
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 31 December 2020
495 m awayRef 2020991012044
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 7 February 1990
539 m awayRef 1990929000841
Fatal
Dennis crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 5 June 2001
539 m awayRef 2001920101926
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 8 January 1993
566 m awayRef 1993929300124
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1998929804178 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.