Serious A939 crash in Aberdeenshire on 29 August 2007 at 12:05 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A939 in Aberdeenshire at 12:05 on Wednesday 29 August 2007. The 29-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
- 29 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16875, longitude -3.2308, in the AB36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007920702854
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 939
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 12 September 1983
36 m awayRef 1983928305775
Serious
Honda crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 12 April 1997
36 m awayRef 1997929701530
Slight
Car crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 1 January 1986
124 m awayRef 1986928600001
Slight
BMW R 1100 GS crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 23 August 2007
265 m awayRef 2007920702790
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 16 February 1994
282 m awayRef 1994929400812
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 25 July 2014
327 m awayRef 2014921400936
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2007920702854 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 2007.