B983 crash in Aberdeen City on 5 August 2015 at 14:15 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia crashed on the B983 in Aberdeen City at 14:15 on Wednesday 5 August 2015. The 58-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.15057, longitude -2.11267, in the AB25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen. It is one of the crashes that make up the George St/Harbour, Aberdeen City, AB10 1LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeen City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015921500867
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 983
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2008.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 4 June 2008
8 m awayRef 2008920802734
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 2 October 1981
42 m awayRef 1981928106257
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B983 in Aberdeen City, 31 December 1993
42 m awayRef 1993929307708
Slight
Car crash on the B983 in Aberdeen City, 27 May 1986
42 m awayRef 1986928603421
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 1 July 1983
42 m awayRef 1983928304110
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 30 March 1989
42 m awayRef 1989928902085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 2015921500867 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 2015.