A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 12 December 2003 at 15:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 15:00 on Friday 12 December 2003. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2003
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38492, longitude -4.05303, in the PH6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003930000246
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2005.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 28 August 2005
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 18 January 2005
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 23 June 2019
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Serious
Honda ST1300A crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 31 August 2018
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Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 10 July 2022
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 11 August 2009
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2003930000246 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 2003.