A984 crash in Perth and Kinross on 13 March 1997 at 14:25 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A984 in Perth and Kinross at 14:25 on Thursday 13 March 1997. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.55445, longitude -3.43805, in the PH1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199793971233W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 984
- 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
- 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 5 August 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A984 in Perth and Kinross, 5 August 1998
100 m awayRef 199893983416W
Slight
Car crash on the B947 in Perth and Kinross, 3 June 1986
100 m awayRef 19869386W0845
Serious
Car crash on the A984 in Perth and Kinross, 2 November 2000
141 m awayRef 2000930003314
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A984 in Perth and Kinross, 21 May 1999
141 m awayRef 199993992366W
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A984 in Perth and Kinross, 28 October 2002
141 m awayRef 2002930005851
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A984 in Perth and Kinross, 12 February 2003
149 m awayRef 2003930001118
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199793971233W 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 1997.