A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 22 December 2016 at 13:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 13:30 on Thursday 22 December 2016. The 68-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05528, longitude -2.52243, in the AB31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banchory.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016921601134
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2017.
Slight
Opel crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 31 December 2017
59 m awayRef 2017921800002
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 30 July 1989
63 m awayRef 1989928904952
Serious
Volvo 343 crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 April 1992
63 m awayRef 1992929202688
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 25 May 1979
125 m awayRef 1979927903392
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 19 January 1979
196 m awayRef 1979927900457
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 May 2006
203 m awayRef 2006920601842
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
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 2016921601134 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.