A9 crash in Perth and Kinross on 1 July 1990 at 12:15 involving a Volvo 340
A Volvo 340 crashed on the A9 in Perth and Kinross at 12:15 on Sunday 1 July 1990. A 69-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1990
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 340
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.81786, longitude -4.17232, in the PH18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199093901271W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 116 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2017.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 8 March 2017
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Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 20 January 2024
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Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 23 September 2021
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Slight
Audi TTS crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 18 July 2018
611 m awayRef 2018930000241
Slight
Citroen DS5 crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 11 March 2021
638 m awayRef 2021991028131
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 20 September 2008
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 340
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 340)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199093901271W 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.