Serious A90 crash in Aberdeen City on 30 July 2014 at 14:10 involving a Lexmoto Tornado motorcycle
A Lexmoto Tornado motorcycle crashed on the A90 in Aberdeen City at 14:10 on Wednesday 30 July 2014. The 35-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 2014
- Wednesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Tornado
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16923, longitude -2.14119, in the AB16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdeen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northfield/Mastrick North, Aberdeen City, AB16 7TD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeen City
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014921401111
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2013.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A90 in Aberdeen City, 23 January 2013
2 m awayRef 2013921300417
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A947 in Aberdeen City, 1 October 1993
41 m awayRef 1993929305608
Slight
Nissan Pathfinder crash on the A90 in Aberdeen City, 9 April 2008
53 m awayRef 2008920801517
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A90 in Aberdeen City, 10 January 2000
61 m awayRef 2000920000279
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeen City, 2 April 1991
98 m awayRef 1991929102154
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A90 in Aberdeen City, 3 September 2012
99 m awayRef 2012921203104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Tornado
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Tornado)
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 2014921401111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeen City road accident statistics for 2014.