Serious B9097 crash in Perth and Kinross on 12 April 2002 at 00:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross at 00:30 on Friday 12 April 2002. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 2002
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.16893, longitude -3.44617, in the KY13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002930003230
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9097
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 26 February 1982
At the same spotRef 19829382W0269
Slight
Car crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 7 February 2011
86 m awayRef 2011930000448
Slight
Car crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 2 February 1989
141 m awayRef 19899389W0170
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 7 December 1993
224 m awayRef 199393936225W
Serious
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 23 April 2005
297 m awayRef 2005930001691
Serious
Car crash on the B9097 in Perth and Kinross, 20 March 1988
300 m awayRef 19889388W0428
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2002930003230 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.