Serious B999 crash in Aberdeenshire on 8 May 2016 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B999 in Aberdeenshire at 14:30 on Sunday 8 May 2016. The 18-year-old female driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2016
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.34589, longitude -2.18907, in the AB41 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016921600484
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 999
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 4 March 2002
25 m awayRef 2002920200896
Fatal
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 5 August 1982
25 m awayRef 1982928204680
Slight
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 27 August 1981
25 m awayRef 1981928105104
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 21 December 2015
62 m awayRef 2015921501407
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 12 October 2021
62 m awayRef 2021991102009
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 15 December 2020
69 m awayRef 2020991008686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2016921600484 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 2016.