Serious A956 crash in Aberdeen City on 21 November 2014 at 19:26 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A956 in Aberdeen City at 19:26 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 37-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 19:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.11761, longitude -2.08872, in the AB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kincorth/Nigg/Cove, Aberdeen City, AB12 3AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeen City
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014921401496
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 956
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 2024.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A956 in Aberdeen City, 9 February 2024
3 m awayRef 2024991408254
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A956 in Aberdeen City, 10 October 2014
6 m awayRef 2014921401323
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A956 in Aberdeen City, 14 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025991686932
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A956 in Aberdeen City, 13 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008920801889
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A956 in Aberdeen City, 10 March 2012
17 m awayRef 2012921200985
Slight
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 16 September 2015
21 m awayRef 2015921501045
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2014921401496 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 2014.