Serious A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 14 October 2009 at 21:00 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 21:00 on Wednesday 14 October 2009. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Oct 2009
- Wednesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05401, longitude -3.09659, in the AB35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009920904273
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2011.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 13 January 2011
41 m awayRef 2011921100160
Serious
KTM 1290 Superduke crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 2025
68 m awayRef 2025991615078
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 8 October 1994
92 m awayRef 1994929404791
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 September 1994
150 m awayRef 1994929404334
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 2 February 1980
180 m awayRef 1980928000804
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 2009
278 m awayRef 2009920901459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 2009920904273 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.