Serious A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 22 May 2008 at 16:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 16:50 on Thursday 22 May 2008. The 53-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
- 22 May 2008
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.9538, longitude -3.40605, in the AB35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008920801995
- 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
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, 60 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 July 2010.
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 20 July 2010
60 m awayRef 2010921002768
Slight
Van crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 9 October 1985
80 m awayRef 1985928506967
Serious
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 27 April 2008
81 m awayRef 2008920801701
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 18 September 1987
128 m awayRef 1987928705483
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 30 March 1997
128 m awayRef 1997929701378
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 15 December 1991
128 m awayRef 1991929108147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2008920801995 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 2008.