Serious B952 crash in Perth and Kinross on 4 August 1997 at 09:50 involving a Ford New Holland
A Ford New Holland crashed on the B952 in Perth and Kinross at 09:50 on Monday 4 August 1997. The 62-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 1997
- Monday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford New Holland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.62594, longitude -3.22235, in the PH11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199793973531W
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 952
- 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, 300 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B952 in Perth and Kinross, 15 August 1998
300 m awayRef 199893983538W
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 5 December 1986
400 m awayRef 19869386W1969
Slight
Car crash on the B952 in Perth and Kinross, 4 December 1995
412 m awayRef 199593956031W
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 55 crash on the B954 in Perth and Kinross, 15 January 2004
412 m awayRef 2004930000564
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 1 March 1991
447 m awayRef 199193911179W
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B952 in Perth and Kinross, 16 August 2000
500 m awayRef 2000930002606
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford New Holland
Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 62, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford New Holland)
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 199793973531W 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.