A824 crash in Perth and Kinross on 27 December 2002 at 12:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A824 in Perth and Kinross at 12:10 on Friday 27 December 2002. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2002
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.30531, longitude -3.67599, in the PH3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930000667
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 August 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 5 August 1989
At the same spotRef 19899389W1314
Serious
Car crash on the A924 in Perth and Kinross, 13 December 1989
At the same spotRef 19899389W2343
Serious
Lorry crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 14 June 1983
At the same spotRef 19839383W0867
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 10 May 2007
41 m awayRef 2007930002156
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 2 November 2003
45 m awayRef 2003930004336
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 14 January 2012
50 m awayRef 2012930000454
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2002930000667 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.