A826 crash in Perth and Kinross on 5 December 2012 at 10:45 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia crashed on the A826 in Perth and Kinross at 10:45 on Wednesday 5 December 2012. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.5306, longitude -3.76609, in the PH8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012930002593
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 826
- 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
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 July 2015.
Fatal
Harley-Davidson crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 8 July 2015
21 m awayRef 2015930000379
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 4 June 1994
336 m awayRef 199493942719W
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 21 September 2025
347 m awayRef 2025991644606
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 12 May 2002
439 m awayRef 2002930003602
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 2 June 1990
538 m awayRef 199093900636W
Slight
Car crash on the A826 in Perth and Kinross, 2 October 2000
670 m awayRef 2000930002984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
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 2012930002593 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.