A980 crash in Aberdeenshire on 5 March 2014 at 22:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A980 in Aberdeenshire at 22:30 on Wednesday 5 March 2014. The 17-year-old female driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2014
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16924, longitude -2.71046, in the AB33 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014921400295
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 980
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 139 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 27 March 2016
139 m awayRef 2016921600312
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 29 July 1990
143 m awayRef 1990929004912
Serious
Renault Captur crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 8 May 2019
143 m awayRef 2019921900324
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 26 September 2005
236 m awayRef 2005920503232
Serious
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 2 September 1984
236 m awayRef 1984928405536
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 3 July 1992
408 m awayRef 1992929204085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2014921400295 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 2014.