B8079 crash in Perth and Kinross on 5 September 2010 at 17:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B8079 in Perth and Kinross at 17:15 on Sunday 5 September 2010. The 51-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
- 5 Sep 2010
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.7602, longitude -3.8207, in the PH16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010930002539
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8079
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8079 in Perth and Kinross, 2 July 2005
42 m awayRef 2005930002553
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B8079 in Perth and Kinross, 27 August 2015
126 m awayRef 2015930000458
Slight
Lorry crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 30 January 1983
175 m awayRef 19839383W0115
Slight
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 15 May 1981
186 m awayRef 19819381W0667
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B8079 in Perth and Kinross, 19 July 1991
186 m awayRef 199193913787W
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 18 February 2004
326 m awayRef 2004930002278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2010930002539 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.