A824 crash in Perth and Kinross on 12 February 2008 at 22:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A824 in Perth and Kinross at 22:10 on Tuesday 12 February 2008. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.30977, longitude -3.67231, in the PH3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008930001244
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 September 2011.
Serious
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 17 September 2011
40 m awayRef 2011930002871
Fatal
Suzuki Swift crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 5 December 2005
51 m awayRef 2005930004465
Slight
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 5 November 2014
60 m awayRef 201493D000065
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 10 November 1995
61 m awayRef 199593955482W
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 2 November 2014
112 m awayRef 2014930000028
Slight
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 8 July 1985
117 m awayRef 19859385W1003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008930001244 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 2008.