Serious A94 crash in Perth and Kinross on 26 September 1990 at 16:50 involving a Bedford bus
A Bedford bus hit a pedestrian on the A94 in Perth and Kinross at 16:50 on Wednesday 26 September 1990. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Sep 1990
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bedford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.54549, longitude -3.27018, in the PH13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199093902823W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 94
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A94 in Perth and Kinross, 15 December 1989
100 m awayRef 19899389W2375
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 24 April 1986
100 m awayRef 19869386W0629
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 1 April 1984
100 m awayRef 19849384W0477
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B948 in Perth and Kinross, 5 October 1988
100 m awayRef 19889388W1574
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A94 in Perth and Kinross, 17 August 1990
100 m awayRef 199093902252W
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B948 in Perth and Kinross, 24 May 2025
117 m awayRef 2025991594231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Bedford)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199093902823W 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.