A9 crash in Perth and Kinross on 14 February 2012 at 17:30 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A9 in Perth and Kinross at 17:30 on Tuesday 14 February 2012. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2012
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.25687, longitude -3.78559, in the PH4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930000636
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 9
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2006.
Slight
Mazda MX-3 crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 11 August 2006
42 m awayRef 2006930002986
Serious
Scania crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 10 June 1996
82 m awayRef 199693962910W
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 21 March 1983
113 m awayRef 19839383W0407
Slight
Lorry crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 27 December 1989
113 m awayRef 19899389W2475
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 19 May 1984
113 m awayRef 19849384W0696
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 29 March 1985
113 m awayRef 19859385W0426
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012930000636 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 2012.