B999 crash in Aberdeenshire on 24 November 2018 at 02:50 involving a Ford Tourneo taxi
A Ford Tourneo taxi crashed on the B999 in Aberdeenshire at 02:50 on Saturday 24 November 2018. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2018
- Saturday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Tourneo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.23754, longitude -2.10413, in the AB23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018921800604
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 999
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 2015.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 5 December 2015
11 m awayRef 2015921501351
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 17 August 1990
24 m awayRef 1990929005306
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 1 December 2020
46 m awayRef 2020991003472
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 10 December 2019
80 m awayRef 2019920907955
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 13 January 2008
87 m awayRef 2008920803703
Slight
Van crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 9 April 1981
139 m awayRef 1981928102127
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Tourneo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Tourneo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2018921800604 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 2018.