A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 20 November 1982 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 23:00 on Saturday 20 November 1982. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1982
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38984, longitude -3.73314, in the PH7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19829382W1746
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- 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 serious injury crash on 15 November 1998.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 15 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199893985218W
Serious
Suzuki Celerio crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 13 January 2024
75 m awayRef 2024991398050
Serious
Fiat Coupe crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 23 June 2009
81 m awayRef 2009930002251
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 24 December 2008
86 m awayRef 2008930000045
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 April 2010
92 m awayRef 2010930002305
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 June 1989
141 m awayRef 19899389W0942
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 19829382W1746 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.