Unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB45 on 12 December 2002 at 02:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 02:10 on Thursday 12 December 2002. The 36-year-old female driver and a 48-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.67152, longitude -2.33978, in the AB45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002920204201
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2002920204201 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 2002.