Serious A939 crash in Aberdeenshire on 20 March 2012 at 01:26 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A939 in Aberdeenshire at 01:26 on Tuesday 20 March 2012. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Mar 2012
- Tuesday, 01:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16309, longitude -3.17472, in the AB36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012921201024
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 939
- 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
- Dry
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, 166 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 September 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 17 September 1986
166 m awayRef 1986928606033
Serious
Car crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 21 October 1988
260 m awayRef 1988928806528
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 20 May 1998
282 m awayRef 1998929801994
Serious
Car crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 1 April 1983
481 m awayRef 1983928302008
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 15 September 1992
663 m awayRef 1992929205766
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 3 October 2010
709 m awayRef 2010921003863
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, 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 2012921201024 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 2012.