Unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB44 on 22 December 2015 at 11:30 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 11:30 on Tuesday 22 December 2015. A 74-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.66565, longitude -2.48842, in the AB44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Macduff.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015921501409
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 35%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 65%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 22 March 2001
64 m awayRef 2001920101208
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 18 November 1988
64 m awayRef 1988928807183
Slight
Car crash on the B9026 in Aberdeenshire, 11 July 1981
64 m awayRef 1981928104092
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the B9026 in Aberdeenshire, 27 November 2022
113 m awayRef 2022991247189
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B9026 in Aberdeenshire, 23 August 1980
135 m awayRef 1980928005098
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 3 April 1997
142 m awayRef 1997929701405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015921501409 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 2015.