Serious A95 crash in Moray on 4 July 2018 at 08:10 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A95 in Moray at 08:10 on Wednesday 4 July 2018. The 62-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 23-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2018
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.55406, longitude -2.90247, in the AB55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018921800438
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 95
- 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
- 9018
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A95 in Moray, 30 January 1981
14 m awayRef 1981928100691
Slight
Car crash on the A95 in Moray, 17 July 1997
14 m awayRef 1997929703092
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A95 in Moray, 3 September 2013
20 m awayRef 2013921303296
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A95 in Moray, 20 June 2008
33 m awayRef 2008920802390
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A95 in Moray, 28 October 1992
94 m awayRef 1992929206753
Serious
Car crash on the A95 in Moray, 20 November 1989
108 m awayRef 1989928907734
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018921800438 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Moray road accident statistics for 2018.