Serious A96 crash in Moray on 18 January 2014 at 01:29 involving a car
A car crashed on the A96 in Moray at 01:29 on Saturday 18 January 2014. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jan 2014
- Saturday, 01:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.63696, longitude -3.46613, in the IV30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014921400089
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 96
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2005.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A96 in Moray, 8 October 2005
14 m awayRef 2005920503407
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A96 in Moray, 11 May 1989
40 m awayRef 1989928902943
Slight
Car crash on the A96 in Moray, 24 February 1983
66 m awayRef 1983928301241
Slight
Car crash on the A96 in Moray, 18 October 1989
66 m awayRef 1989928906932
Fatal
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A96 in Moray, 9 August 2002
105 m awayRef 2002920202646
Serious
Lorry crash on the A96 in Moray, 18 November 1983
137 m awayRef 1983928307567
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2014921400089 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 2014.