A981 crash in Aberdeenshire on 19 April 2009 at 18:10 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A981 in Aberdeenshire at 18:10 on Sunday 19 April 2009. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2009
- Sunday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66641, longitude -2.03265, in the AB43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009920901653
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 981
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 3 March 2000
71 m awayRef 2000920000839
Slight
Car crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 10 March 1981
292 m awayRef 1981928101504
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 8 January 1993
292 m awayRef 1993929300124
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 31 December 2020
369 m awayRef 2020991012044
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 18 December 2011
499 m awayRef 2011921104584
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 12 May 1991
738 m awayRef 1991929103212
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2009920901653 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 2009.