Biker loses fight for life after crash
Police appeal for witnesses
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AN ABERDEEN biker died today after a crash in a North-east road.
The 21-year-old was airlifted by helicopter to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the crash, where he lost his fight for life.
The one-vehicle crash happened on the A93 Aberdeen to Ballater road, half a mile outside Dinnet.
Police officers were today appealing for anyone who saw the Aberdeen man’s orange Kawasaki motorbike in the area before the crash, which happened at about 9.40pm yesterday, to contact them.
He had been taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious life-threatening injuries.
Following the crash, traffic was diverted via the A97 Dinnet to Huntly road and the B9119 Tarland to Echt road. The A93 reopened at 7am today.
A Grampian Police spokesman said today the man, from the Aberdeen area, had died from his injuries. The man came off the bike and kept going down the road for a distance before stopping.
It is the 13th death on North-east roads this year.
Meanwhile, a cyclist was today critically ill in hospital after being hit by a tanker in Aberdeen.
The 20-year-old woman suffered serious injuries to her leg and hip after the crash on Aberdeen’s Holburn Street.
Sections of the Garthdee roundabout and part of Holburn Street were closed for four hours as road traffic collision officers investigated the crash, which took place in Aberdeen at around 1.55pm yesterday.
Nearby resident Craig Sunley, an HGV driver, came out of his flat just after the crash happened.
The 39-year-old said: “Paramedics were gathered around her and I could see her leg looked in a bad way.”
James Robertson, 75, who also lives on Aberdeen’s Holburn Street, said: “I was away to cross the street and saw a girl lying on the ground.
“I thought she must have been knocked down, as there was a lorry stopped. I could see her bike under the motor.
“She was then put on a stretcher and taken away by ambulance. It’s awful.”
An ambulance crew took the woman, who is thought to be from eastern Europe, to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the crash which involved a Carntyne Transport tanker.
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said the woman suffered leg and pelvic injuries in the crash.
Insp Mike McDonald, who is leading the investigation into the Aberdeen crash, appealed for witnesses.
