A942 crash in Moray on 5 December 2012 at 12:26 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A942 in Moray at 12:26 on Wednesday 5 December 2012. The 57-year-old male driver of the car and the 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 12:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66505, longitude -2.95488, in the AB56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012921204445
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 942
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 98
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A942 in Moray, 9 December 1994
30 m awayRef 1994929406005
Serious
Yamaha FJR crash on the A942 in Moray, 5 July 2022
32 m awayRef 2022991196593
Slight
Iveco crash on the A942 in Moray, 3 March 2016
60 m awayRef 2016921600246
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A942 in Moray, 16 December 1999
70 m awayRef 1999929904825
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the A942 in Moray, 16 January 1994
104 m awayRef 1994929400210
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A98 in Moray, 13 November 2000
122 m awayRef 2000920004129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2012921204445 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.