B976 crash in Aberdeenshire on 3 December 2000 at 12:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B976 in Aberdeenshire at 12:30 on Sunday 3 December 2000. A 15-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.06607, longitude -2.79647, in the AB34 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000920004383
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 976
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the B976 in Aberdeenshire, 21 May 1989
141 m awayRef 1989928903315
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B976 in Aberdeenshire, 10 June 2009
318 m awayRef 2009920902420
Serious
Car crash on the B976 in Aberdeenshire, 28 July 1989
447 m awayRef 1989928905249
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B976 in Aberdeenshire, 20 January 1998
510 m awayRef 1998929800898
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 15 June 1980
583 m awayRef 1980928003609
Slight
Lorry crash on the B976 in Aberdeenshire, 24 August 1988
608 m awayRef 1988928805287
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2000920004383 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.