Unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB54 on 23 May 2007 at 17:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 17:00 on Wednesday 23 May 2007. The 87-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2007
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.44847, longitude -2.78543, in the AB54 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huntly. It is one of the crashes that make up the Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford, Aberdeenshire, AB54 8JU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007920701713
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2007.
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 21 December 2007
51 m awayRef 2007920704374
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 22 December 1993
57 m awayRef 1993929307579
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 28 May 1988
57 m awayRef 1988928803187
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 17 August 2014
61 m awayRef 2014921401031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 22 November 1992
72 m awayRef 1992929207507
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 11 August 2013
84 m awayRef 2013921302994
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, 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 2007920701713 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 2007.