Serious B9097 crash in Perth and Kinross on 18 September 1982 at 06:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross at 06:50 on Saturday 18 September 1982. The 43-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 1982
- Saturday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.17571, longitude -3.31754, in the KY5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19829382W1373
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9097
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 920
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1995.
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 6 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199593954937W
Slight
Car crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 24 October 1979
At the same spotRef 19799379W1888
Serious
Car crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 26 June 1984
At the same spotRef 19849384W0875
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 16 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199093903958W
Slight
Car crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 18 November 1985
At the same spotRef 19859385W1874
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 25 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025991673813
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19829382W1373 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Perth and Kinross road accident statistics for 1982.