B977 crash in Aberdeenshire on 4 March 2000 at 08:20 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series crashed on the B977 in Aberdeenshire at 08:20 on Saturday 4 March 2000. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2000
- Saturday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.08742, longitude -2.48672, in the AB31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000920000845
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 977
- 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
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 2010.
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B977 in Aberdeenshire, 13 May 2010
64 m awayRef 2010921001927
Slight
Car crash on the B977 in Aberdeenshire, 24 May 2008
80 m awayRef 2008920802016
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the B9125 in Aberdeenshire, 15 September 2018
94 m awayRef 2018921800533
Slight
Car crash on the B977 in Aberdeenshire, 14 September 1983
100 m awayRef 1983928305880
Slight
Car crash on the B977 in Aberdeenshire, 1 July 1986
224 m awayRef 1986928604291
Slight
Taxi crash on the B977 in Aberdeenshire, 1 July 1987
283 m awayRef 1987928703752
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2000920000845 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 2000.