A9 crash in Perth and Kinross on 14 January 2013 at 07:10 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion crashed on the A9 in Perth and Kinross at 07:10 on Monday 14 January 2013. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2013
- Monday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.29506, longitude -3.68867, in the PH3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013930000235
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1992.
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 28 January 1992
25 m awayRef 199293920374W
Slight
HGV crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 24 September 2001
25 m awayRef 2001930002614
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 16 December 1996
114 m awayRef 199693966110W
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 7 August 2003
118 m awayRef 2003930003356
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 9 November 2013
165 m awayRef 2013930001677
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 3 August 1989
213 m awayRef 19899389W1341
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
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 2013930000235 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 2013.