Serious B9136 crash in Moray on 29 August 1998 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B9136 in Moray at 11:40 on Saturday 29 August 1998. The 33-year-old male rider was 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
- 29 Aug 1998
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.26455, longitude -3.40924, in the AB37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998929803797
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9136
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 939
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A939 in Moray, 24 September 1983
100 m awayRef 1983928306137
Slight
Car crash on the A939 in Moray, 18 September 1981
141 m awayRef 1981928105904
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A939 in Moray, 7 June 1990
141 m awayRef 1990929003642
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B9136 in Moray, 1 August 1980
316 m awayRef 1980928004641
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A939 in Moray, 28 August 1994
316 m awayRef 1994929404004
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B9136 in Moray, 5 December 1998
447 m awayRef 1998929805236
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1998929803797 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 1998.