A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 31 December 2017 at 23:25 involving an Opel
An Opel crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 23:25 on Sunday 31 December 2017. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Opel
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05486, longitude -2.5217, 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
- 2017921800002
- 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
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2016.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 22 December 2016
59 m awayRef 2016921601134
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 30 July 1989
113 m awayRef 1989928904952
Serious
Volvo 343 crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 April 1992
113 m awayRef 1992929202688
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 May 2006
145 m awayRef 2006920601842
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 19 January 1979
147 m awayRef 1979927900457
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 13 May 2001
178 m awayRef 2001920101667
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Opel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Opel)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017921800002 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.