Serious unclassified road crash in Moray IV30 on 31 August 2012 at 12:30 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 crashed on an unclassified road in Moray at 12:30 on Friday 31 August 2012. The 83-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2012
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.6493, longitude -3.31823, in the IV30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elgin. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elgin City North, Moray, IV30 1LF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012921203095
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 September 1983.
Fatal
Car crash on the A96 in Moray, 2 September 1983
22 m awayRef 1983928305521
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 11 February 1990
22 m awayRef 1990929000968
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 11 February 1990
22 m awayRef 1990929001170
Slight
Car crash on the A96 in Moray, 12 July 1988
22 m awayRef 1988928804095
Slight
Car crash on the A941 in Moray, 21 March 1980
22 m awayRef 1980928001752
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A941 in Moray, 9 April 1980
22 m awayRef 1980928002230
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
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 2012921203095 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Moray road accident statistics for 2012.