A920 crash in Aberdeenshire on 23 July 2016 at 09:00 involving a Dacia Duster
A car and a Dacia Duster were involved in a crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire at 09:00 on Saturday 23 July 2016. The 64-year-old male driver of the Dacia Duster was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Dacia Duster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.33776, longitude -2.19767, in the AB41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016921600680
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 920
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 9000
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 2 March 2012
9 m awayRef 2012921200833
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 17 July 2013
11 m awayRef 2013921302664
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 23 September 2012
13 m awayRef 2012921203379
Serious
Lorry crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 3 March 1986
20 m awayRef 1986928601609
Serious
Saab 900 crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 1994
20 m awayRef 1994929401890
Serious
Car crash on the A920 in Aberdeenshire, 26 June 2008
22 m awayRef 2008920802473
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Dacia Duster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dacia Duster)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016921600680 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.