B8019 crash in Perth and Kinross on 9 May 1996 at 05:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B8019 in Perth and Kinross at 05:00 on Thursday 9 May 1996. The 22-year-old male 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
- 9 May 1996
- Thursday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.71254, longitude -3.9669, in the PH16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199693962091W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8019
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 854 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 May 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the B8019 in Perth and Kinross, 22 May 1979
854 m awayRef 19799379W0836
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B8019 in Perth and Kinross, 12 October 2010
990 m awayRef 2010930003300
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Perth and Kinross, 28 May 2000
1.0 km awayRef 2000930001670
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A884 in Highland, 7 July 1997
1.5 km awayRef 199791P006617
Slight
Van crash on the A884 in Highland, 9 March 2001
1.5 km awayRef 200191NP02182
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A884 in Perth and Kinross, 15 August 1991
1.6 km awayRef 1991910080389
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 199693962091W 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 1996.