Serious unclassified road crash in Moray IV36 on 16 March 2015 at 11:30 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Moray at 11:30 on Monday 16 March 2015. A 39-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2015
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.60304, longitude -3.61576, in the IV36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Forres. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forres, Moray, IV36 1ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015921500519
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 23 February 1985
75 m awayRef 1985928501301
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 30 May 1999
79 m awayRef 1999929902127
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 22 October 1999
79 m awayRef 1999929903948
Serious
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 25 December 2015
85 m awayRef 2015921501426
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 9 August 1991
148 m awayRef 1991929104956
Slight
Renault 14 crash on the A940 in Moray, 18 October 1994
148 m awayRef 1994929404898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015921500519 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 2015.