Serious A93 crash in Perth and Kinross on 28 March 2008 at 16:00 involving an Iveco lorry
An Iveco lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross at 16:00 on Friday 28 March 2008. The 40-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Mar 2008
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.51172, longitude -3.38379, in the PH2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008930002059
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- 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
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2024.
Slight
Triumph Speed crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 17 September 2024
22 m awayRef 2024991493183
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 26 November 1980
50 m awayRef 19809380W1800
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 19 September 1990
92 m awayRef 199093902723W
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 24 January 2011
120 m awayRef 2011930000280
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 15 September 1989
143 m awayRef 19899389W1653
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 20 January 2015
193 m awayRef 2015930000124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008930002059 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.