Serious unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB31 on 31 May 2021 at 15:25 involving a Peugeot 2008
A Peugeot 2008 crashed on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 15:25 on Monday 31 May 2021. The 81-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2021
- Monday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 2008
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.05368, longitude -2.48845, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021991050698
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 83 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 30 May 1983
83 m awayRef 1983928303323
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 20 November 1989
88 m awayRef 1989928907834
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 30 January 2018
119 m awayRef 2018921800082
Slight
Seat Altea crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 18 November 2010
145 m awayRef 2010921004516
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 17 April 1982
169 m awayRef 1982928202277
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A980 in Aberdeenshire, 16 December 1983
169 m awayRef 1983928308430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 2008)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2021991050698 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 2021.