Serious A93 crash in Aberdeenshire on 3 September 2018 at 12:50 involving a Kawasaki ZX1200 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1200 motorcycle crashed on the A93 in Aberdeenshire at 12:50 on Monday 3 September 2018. 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
- 3 Sep 2018
- Monday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.95002, longitude -3.40638, in the AB35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018921800441
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 196 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2005.
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 16 April 2005
196 m awayRef 2005920501355
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 7 August 1998
217 m awayRef 1998929804290
Serious
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 27 April 2008
332 m awayRef 2008920801701
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 22 May 2008
412 m awayRef 2008920801995
Slight
Van crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 9 October 1985
414 m awayRef 1985928506967
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A93 in Aberdeenshire, 20 July 2010
472 m awayRef 2010921002768
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1200)
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 2018921800441 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.