Unclassified road crash in Aberdeen City AB15 on 31 December 2010 at 09:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City at 09:30 on Friday 31 December 2010. An 83-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2010
- Friday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.13428, longitude -2.14502, in the AB15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee, Aberdeen City, AB10 7PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeen City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010921100019
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 1 February 2001
28 m awayRef 2001920100501
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 25 August 1994
28 m awayRef 1994929403977
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 7 October 1981
28 m awayRef 1981928106375
Slight
MG MGF crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 7 October 2005
41 m awayRef 2005920503384
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 6 March 2024
47 m awayRef 2024991417881
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 9 October 2000
82 m awayRef 2000920003674
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2010921100019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeen City road accident statistics for 2010.