Serious A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 13 May 2001 at 14:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 14:45 on Sunday 13 May 2001. The 30-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
- 13 May 2001
- Sunday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.95739, longitude -3.40586, in the AB35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001920101756
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2003.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 June 2003
40 m awayRef 2003920301958
Serious
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 June 1998
100 m awayRef 1998929802383
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 29 July 2005
184 m awayRef 2005920502624
Slight
Kawasaki ZR1200 crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 October 2007
200 m awayRef 2007920703689
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 6 June 2004
200 m awayRef 2004920401717
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 22 June 1984
224 m awayRef 1984928403834
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 2001920101756 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 2001.