A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 13 January 2011 at 19:00 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 19:00 on Thursday 13 January 2011. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2011
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05437, longitude -3.09676, in the AB35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011921100160
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2009.
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 October 2009
41 m awayRef 2009920904273
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 8 October 1994
58 m awayRef 1994929404791
Serious
KTM 1290 Superduke crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 2025
80 m awayRef 2025991615078
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 September 1994
139 m awayRef 1994929404334
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 2 February 1980
177 m awayRef 1980928000804
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 2009
269 m awayRef 2009920901459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2011921100160 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 2011.