A970 crash in the Shetland Islands on 31 March 2016 at 11:30 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo crashed on the A970 in the Shetland Islands at 11:30 on Thursday 31 March 2016. The 69-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 59.9649, longitude -1.28221, in the ZE2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Shetland Islands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201691NL01321
- Council area
- Shetland Islands
- Police force
- Northern
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 970
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 209 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2011.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 27 May 2011
209 m awayRef 201191NL02905
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A970 in the Shetland Islands, 22 November 2001
301 m awayRef 200191NL05611
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on the A970 in the Shetland Islands, 21 November 1997
310 m awayRef 199791L006018
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 3 November 2009
405 m awayRef 200991NL06360
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in the Shetland Islands, 15 January 1998
582 m awayRef 199891L000250
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A970 in the Shetland Islands, 19 May 2017
782 m awayRef 201791NL01796
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 201691NL01321 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shetland Islands road accident statistics for 2016.