A989 crash in Perth and Kinross on 18 August 2001 at 15:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A989 in Perth and Kinross at 15:30 on Saturday 18 August 2001. A 39-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2001
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.39863, longitude -3.42846, in the PH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Perth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Perth City Centre, Perth and Kinross, PH1 5QJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001930002384
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 989
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A989 in Perth and Kinross, 28 June 2014
25 m awayRef 2014930000301
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A989 in Perth and Kinross, 21 January 2017
31 m awayRef 2017930000075
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 26 September 1991
50 m awayRef 199193914790W
Slight
Hyundai Stellar crash on the A989 in Perth and Kinross, 25 June 1993
50 m awayRef 199393933099W
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 26 July 1996
50 m awayRef 199693963338W
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 4 January 1998
50 m awayRef 199893980031W
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2001930002384 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 2001.