B953 crash in Perth and Kinross on 17 July 2012 at 22:54 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 crashed on the B953 in Perth and Kinross at 22:54 on Tuesday 17 July 2012. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 22:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.45812, longitude -3.17948, in the PH14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930002015
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 953
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 1989.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 26 May 1989
32 m awayRef 19899389W0851
Slight
Car crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 16 September 1999
32 m awayRef 1999930000349
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 26 September 1993
32 m awayRef 199393934784W
Serious
Renault Extra crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 26 March 1998
130 m awayRef 199893981272W
Slight
Leyland crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 26 March 1990
130 m awayRef 19909390W0578
Serious
Car crash on the B953 in Perth and Kinross, 20 December 2000
136 m awayRef 2000930000034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
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 2012930002015 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.