Serious B947 crash in Aberdeenshire on 5 June 2007 at 05:45 involving a Toyota Hilux
A Toyota Hilux crashed on the B947 in Aberdeenshire at 05:45 on Tuesday 5 June 2007. The 46-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger and a 34-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 2007
- Tuesday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Hilux
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.37985, longitude -2.3409, in the AB51 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007920701977
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 947
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 24 January 1985
100 m awayRef 1985928500527
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 11 October 1994
100 m awayRef 1994929405146
Slight
Van crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 2 July 1985
141 m awayRef 1985928504460
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 1 November 2005
164 m awayRef 2005920503726
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 24 March 2012
181 m awayRef 2012921201066
Serious
Car crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire, 4 September 1980
224 m awayRef 1980928005445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hilux
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hilux)
- 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 2007920701977 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.