Serious A939 crash in Aberdeenshire on 14 August 2016 at 12:57 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A939 in Aberdeenshire at 12:57 on Sunday 14 August 2016. The 47-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
- 14 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16281, longitude -3.22169, in the AB36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016921600736
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 939
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2007.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 26 January 2007
14 m awayRef 2007920800349
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 5 September 2016
15 m awayRef 2016921600793
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 20 May 2018
71 m awayRef 2018921800256
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 22 June 1997
198 m awayRef 1997929702677
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 31 July 1993
198 m awayRef 1993929304225
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 5 June 2010
215 m awayRef 2010921002276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, 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 2016921600736 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 2016.