Serious A923 crash in Perth and Kinross on 9 August 1993 at 07:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Citroen BX were involved in a crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross at 07:25 on Monday 9 August 1993. The 73-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Aug 1993
- Monday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.53401, longitude -3.25028, in the PH13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199393933892W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 923
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 24 December 1990.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 24 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199093904828W
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 22 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199693963859W
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 5 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199393933812W
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 8 December 2008
61 m awayRef 2008930000726
Slight
Van crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 8 February 1979
100 m awayRef 19799379W0221
Serious
Car crash on the A923 in Perth and Kinross, 9 December 2001
100 m awayRef 2001930000059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199393933892W 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 1993.