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Serious unclassified road crash in Aberdeenshire AB30 on 19 May 1998 at 21:00 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle

A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire at 21:00 on Tuesday 19 May 1998. The 48-year-old male rider 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
19 May 1998
Tuesday, 21:00
Vehicles
1
Suzuki GSF 600
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.84536, longitude -2.56718, in the AB30 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998929801976
Council area
Aberdeenshire
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years
    Engine capacity
    599 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 48, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)

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 1998929801976 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 1998.