Serious A930 crash in Angus on 10 October 2006 at 11:30 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A930 in Angus at 11:30 on Tuesday 10 October 2006. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle 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
- 10 Oct 2006
- Tuesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 1000 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.49891, longitude -2.75319, in the DD7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Angus
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006930003885
- Council area
- Angus
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 930
- 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
- C
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
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Angus, 26 April 1997
50 m awayRef 199793971769E
Serious
Car crash on the A930 in Angus, 18 April 1980
50 m awayRef 19809380E0419
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Angus, 21 April 2000
67 m awayRef 2000930001262
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A930 in Angus, 28 May 1996
67 m awayRef 199693962454E
Slight
MG Maestro crash on the A930 in Angus, 21 March 1994
67 m awayRef 199493941605E
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A930 in Angus, 1 September 1997
67 m awayRef 199793974112E
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 2006930003885 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Angus road accident statistics for 2006.