A980 crash in Aberdeenshire on 28 April 2001 at 12:00 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire at 12:00 on Saturday 28 April 2001. A 16-year-old male passenger in the car and the 45-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2001
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.19591, longitude -2.71817, in the AB33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001920101517
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 980
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 24 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 24 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988928805206
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 27 August 2009
61 m awayRef 2009920903558
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 14 July 2012
100 m awayRef 2012921202508
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 20 October 2010
141 m awayRef 2010921004107
Slight
Van crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 4 August 1997
141 m awayRef 1997929703372
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 28 April 2018
169 m awayRef 2018921800210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2001920101517 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.