Unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB12 on 24 July 2008 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 17:00 on Thursday 24 July 2008. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05504, longitude -2.14537, in the AB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portlethen.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008920802840
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 24 December 1986
20 m awayRef 1986928608708
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 7 November 1990
20 m awayRef 1990929007366
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 11 August 1986
128 m awayRef 1986928605187
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 18 May 1984
128 m awayRef 1984928403038
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 21 April 2012
134 m awayRef 2012921201431
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 2009
150 m awayRef 2009920902873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 2008920802840 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.