Serious A950 crash in Aberdeenshire on 3 July 2015 at 15:00 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire at 15:00 on Friday 3 July 2015. The 56-year-old male cyclist 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
- 3 Jul 2015
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.53823, longitude -2.10495, in the AB42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015921500748
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 950
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2007.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire, 1 June 2007
17 m awayRef 2007920701840
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire, 16 November 2011
158 m awayRef 2011921104074
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A952 in Aberdeenshire, 5 December 2012
183 m awayRef 2012921204506
Serious
Car crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire, 19 July 1980
210 m awayRef 1980928004380
Serious
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire, 22 April 2025
484 m awayRef 2025991580772
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A950 in Aberdeenshire, 25 December 2009
572 m awayRef 2009920905602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015921500748 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 2015.