Serious A939 crash in Aberdeenshire on 20 May 2018 at 18:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A939 in Aberdeenshire at 18:20 on Sunday 20 May 2018. The 54-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
- 20 May 2018
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.16229, longitude -3.22082, in the AB36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018921800256
- 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, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2007.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 26 January 2007
57 m awayRef 2007920800349
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 5 September 2016
59 m awayRef 2016921600793
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 14 August 2016
71 m awayRef 2016921600736
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 22 June 1997
172 m awayRef 1997929702677
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A939 in Aberdeenshire, 31 July 1993
172 m awayRef 1993929304225
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A944 in Aberdeenshire, 5 June 2010
184 m awayRef 2010921002276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2018921800256 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 2018.