B920 crash in Perth and Kinross on 17 June 1990 at 23:45 involving an Opel Ascona
An Opel Ascona crashed on the B920 in Perth and Kinross at 23:45 on Sunday 17 June 1990. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1990
- Sunday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Opel Ascona
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.17754, longitude -3.31438, in the KY5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199093900902W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 920
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 November 1997.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 7 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199793975272W
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 23 July 1985
At the same spotRef 19859385W1088
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 2 December 2017
58 m awayRef 2017930000449
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 31 October 1986
100 m awayRef 19869386W1762
Slight
Car crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 10 December 1987
141 m awayRef 19879387W1878
Serious
Van crash on the B920 in Perth and Kinross, 6 December 1987
141 m awayRef 19879387W1860
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Opel Ascona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Opel Ascona)
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 199093900902W 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 1990.