A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 5 April 2009 at 17:48 involving a Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 17:48 on Sunday 5 April 2009. The 42-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2009
- Sunday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR1000RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.0553, longitude -3.09267, in the AB35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009920901459
- 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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 22 February 1987
54 m awayRef 1987928701170
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 September 1994
130 m awayRef 1994929404334
Serious
KTM 1290 Superduke crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 12 July 2025
214 m awayRef 2025991615078
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 8 October 1994
226 m awayRef 1994929404791
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 13 January 2011
269 m awayRef 2011921100160
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 14 October 2009
278 m awayRef 2009920904273
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1000RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1000RR)
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 2009920901459 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 2009.