Serious B966 crash in Aberdeenshire on 2 May 2017 at 16:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B966 in Aberdeenshire at 16:30 on Tuesday 2 May 2017. The 44-year-old male driver was 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
- 2 May 2017
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.88577, longitude -2.43734, in the AB30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017921700348
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 966
- 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, 253 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1995.
Slight
Tomos crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 28 May 1995
253 m awayRef 1995929502510
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B671 in Aberdeenshire, 5 April 2007
345 m awayRef 2007920701261
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the B966 in Aberdeenshire, 4 September 2009
373 m awayRef 2009920903763
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 22 December 1981
377 m awayRef 1981928108431
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 8 March 2023
382 m awayRef 2023991285787
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the B966 in Aberdeenshire, 11 September 2010
383 m awayRef 2010921003547
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017921700348 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 2017.