A90 crash in Perth and Kinross on 8 February 2010 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A90 in Perth and Kinross at 07:00 on Monday 8 February 2010. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2010
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44424, longitude -3.17435, in the PH14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010930000612
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 953
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 25 March 1985
20 m awayRef 19859385W0462
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A93 in Perth and Kinross, 29 April 1999
20 m awayRef 199993991906W
Serious
Car crash on the A90 in Perth and Kinross, 4 June 2000
20 m awayRef 2000930001671
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 6 January 1991
20 m awayRef 199193910058W
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A90 in Perth and Kinross, 2 March 1999
20 m awayRef 199993991105W
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 2 July 1980
20 m awayRef 19809380W0984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2010930000612 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 2010.