B8063 crash in Perth and Kinross on 26 July 1996 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross at 20:00 on Friday 26 July 1996. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1996
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.45092, longitude -3.52986, in the PH1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199693963334W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8063
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 1995.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 31 January 1995
100 m awayRef 199593950481W
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross, 21 September 1991
200 m awayRef 199193914669W
Slight
Car crash on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross, 18 December 1988
500 m awayRef 19889388W2080
Serious
Leyland Cars Maxi crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 17 September 1990
539 m awayRef 199093902700W
Slight
Car crash on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross, 28 May 1986
539 m awayRef 19869386W0807
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the B8063 in Perth and Kinross, 4 August 2017
626 m awayRef 2017930000292
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199693963334W 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.