Serious A824 crash in Perth and Kinross on 30 December 2002 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A824 in Perth and Kinross at 16:30 on Monday 30 December 2002. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2002
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.29589, longitude -3.7079, in the PH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Auchterarder.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930000349
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 824
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2010.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 10 July 2010
At the same spotRef 2010930002105
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 20 May 2001
At the same spotRef 2001930001728
Fatal
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 23 April 1989
At the same spotRef 19899389W0685
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 27 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000930003312
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 3 December 1982
At the same spotRef 19829382W1843
Slight
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 15 March 2006
10 m awayRef 2006930001424
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2002930000349 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 2002.