Serious A981 crash in Aberdeenshire on 27 September 2015 at 10:45 involving a BMW S 1000 motorcycle
A BMW S 1000 motorcycle crashed on the A981 in Aberdeenshire at 10:45 on Sunday 27 September 2015. The 31-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
- 27 Sep 2015
- Sunday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW S 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.59586, longitude -2.09922, in the AB43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015921501092
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 981
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 14 August 2012
8 m awayRef 2012921202817
Slight
Alfa Romeo Alfasud crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 16 January 1992
33 m awayRef 1992929200286
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 25 January 2006
53 m awayRef 2006920600280
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 19 December 1992
114 m awayRef 1992929208199
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A981 in Aberdeenshire, 16 June 2007
195 m awayRef 2007920702012
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Aberdeenshire, 19 December 2012
324 m awayRef 2012921204708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW S 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW S 1000)
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 2015921501092 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.