A980 crash in Aberdeenshire on 27 December 2010 at 10:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A980 in Aberdeenshire at 10:00 on Monday 27 December 2010. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2010
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.06814, longitude -2.50015, 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
- 2010921005192
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 980
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2017.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 5 March 2017
9 m awayRef 2017921700217
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 28 June 1997
50 m awayRef 1997929702689
Slight
Triumph crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 16 July 1998
67 m awayRef 1998929802844
Slight
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 20 February 1979
143 m awayRef 1979927901188
Serious
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 6 December 1981
157 m awayRef 1981928107958
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 20 March 1990
291 m awayRef 1990929001898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2010921005192 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 2010.