A957 crash in Aberdeenshire on 7 October 2008 at 13:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A957 in Aberdeenshire at 13:30 on Tuesday 7 October 2008. The 34-year-old male driver and a 36-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2008
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.01929, longitude -2.3959, in the AB31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008920803952
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 957
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 8 March 2008
28 m awayRef 2008920800934
Slight
Taxi crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 30 July 1986
45 m awayRef 1986928604930
Slight
Car crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 3 July 1997
313 m awayRef 1997929703280
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 27 November 1996
382 m awayRef 1996929605192
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 26 June 2023
396 m awayRef 2023991331439
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 11 July 2020
418 m awayRef 2020990963785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
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 and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- 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 2008920803952 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.