A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 28 July 2006 at 13:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 13:00 on Friday 28 July 2006. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2006
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38308, longitude -4.04483, in the PH6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006930002821
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2013.
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 31 May 2013
16 m awayRef 2013930000672
Serious
Kawasaki ZR1000 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 27 May 2018
18 m awayRef 2018930000179
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 17 September 2005
22 m awayRef 2005930003459
Serious
Honda VFR800 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 18 June 2005
32 m awayRef 2005930002399
Slight
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 22 June 2003
36 m awayRef 2003930002818
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 4 June 2023
39 m awayRef 2023991314808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 2006930002821 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 2006.