B953 crash in Perth and Kinross on 9 November 1995 at 18:20 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara crashed on the B953 in Perth and Kinross at 18:20 on Thursday 9 November 1995. The 20-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
- 9 Nov 1995
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.46445, longitude -3.19768, in the PH14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199593955463W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 953
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1997.
Slight
Leyland crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 21 October 1997
100 m awayRef 199793974989W
Slight
Car crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 7 March 1989
283 m awayRef 19899389W0410
Serious
Car crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 5 June 1986
447 m awayRef 19869386W0854
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 27 January 2013
465 m awayRef 2013930000221
Serious
Car crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 23 February 1980
510 m awayRef 19809380W0288
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 27 May 1983
583 m awayRef 19839383W0733
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 199593955463W 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 1995.