B966 crash in Aberdeenshire on 25 April 2000 at 15:35 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus crashed on the B966 in Aberdeenshire at 15:35 on Tuesday 25 April 2000. A 7-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2000
- Tuesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.85168, longitude -2.57383, in the AB30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000920001796
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 966
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 9120
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1979.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B974 in Aberdeenshire, 10 May 1979
At the same spotRef 1979927903039
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B966 in Aberdeenshire, 13 February 2019
49 m awayRef 2019921900255
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 12 September 1987
100 m awayRef 1987928705376
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B974 in Aberdeenshire, 16 July 2000
100 m awayRef 2000920002496
Fatal
Car crash on the B974 in Aberdeenshire, 5 December 1988
100 m awayRef 1988928807608
Slight
Lexmoto Michigan crash on the B966 in Aberdeenshire, 13 August 2022
107 m awayRef 2022991209154
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, minibus occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2000920001796 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.