Serious A90 crash in Aberdeenshire on 17 February 2001 at 09:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A90 in Aberdeenshire at 09:30 on Saturday 17 February 2001. The 57-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 7-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2001
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.07033, longitude -2.12696, in the AB12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001920100877
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A92 in Aberdeenshire, 3 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983928300715
Serious
Car crash on the A92 in Aberdeenshire, 12 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980928008107
Slight
Leyland DAF crash on the A92 in Aberdeenshire, 23 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992929204695
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A90 in Aberdeenshire, 11 December 1997
At the same spotRef 1997929706153
Slight
Lorry crash on the A92 in Aberdeenshire, 3 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982928203378
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A90 in Aberdeenshire, 29 March 2008
82 m awayRef 2008920801325
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2001920100877 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 2001.