A93 crash in Aberdeen City on 26 December 2012 at 16:00 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City at 16:00 on Wednesday 26 December 2012. The 60-year-old female driver of the Ford C-Max and the 78-year-old male driver of the Fiat 500 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.12439, longitude -2.14894, in the AB15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012921204808
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, street lights lit
- 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 26 January 1985
28 m awayRef 1985928500640
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 27 November 1983
28 m awayRef 1983928307929
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 6 June 1982
28 m awayRef 1982928203352
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 21 April 1994
28 m awayRef 1994929402224
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 4 August 1989
28 m awayRef 1989928904998
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 15 December 1979
28 m awayRef 1979927908345
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 2012921204808 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 2012.