A944 crash in Aberdeenshire on 18 June 2008 at 22:58 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A944 in Aberdeenshire at 22:58 on Wednesday 18 June 2008. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 22:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.14939, longitude -2.28854, in the AB32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westhill.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008920802352
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 944
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 June 2012.
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 14 June 2012
14 m awayRef 2012921202207
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 9 October 2014
16 m awayRef 2014921401315
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 28 May 1981
81 m awayRef 1981928103149
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 27 April 1994
81 m awayRef 1994929402074
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 12 January 2009
82 m awayRef 2009920900185
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 10 September 2024
126 m awayRef 2024991493007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2008920802352 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 2008.