Serious A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 7 August 2024 at 16:39 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 16:39 on Wednesday 7 August 2024. A 62-year-old female passenger 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
- 7 Aug 2024
- Wednesday, 16:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.07513, longitude -2.899, in the AB34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991477068
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 93 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 25 October 1980
93 m awayRef 1980928006828
Fatal
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 13 May 2001
96 m awayRef 2001920101704
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 July 2013
170 m awayRef 2013921302817
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 18 September 1981
230 m awayRef 1981928105910
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 11 September 1982
322 m awayRef 1982928205705
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 31 August 1982
322 m awayRef 1982928205322
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2024991477068 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 2024.