A957 crash in Aberdeenshire on 29 October 2009 at 08:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A957 in Aberdeenshire at 08:00 on Thursday 29 October 2009. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.99158, longitude -2.3148, in the AB39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009920904504
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 133 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 24 December 2004
133 m awayRef 2004920500181
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 26 January 1996
148 m awayRef 1996929600275
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 26 April 2020
191 m awayRef 2020990948062
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 2015
256 m awayRef 2015921500381
Slight
Audi Cabriolet crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 11 August 2014
256 m awayRef 2014921400994
Slight
Car crash on the A957 in Aberdeenshire, 13 December 1987
337 m awayRef 1987928707610
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, 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 2009920904504 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.