M90 crash in Perth and Kinross on 31 August 2013 at 01:45 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van crashed on the M90 in Perth and Kinross at 01:45 on Saturday 31 August 2013. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2013
- Saturday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.2024, longitude -3.43176, in the KY13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kinross-shire, Perth and Kinross, KY13 8TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Perth and Kinross
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013930001150
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 90
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 December 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 20 December 1988
29 m awayRef 19889388W2099
Slight
Car crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 16 June 2001
29 m awayRef 2001930001871
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 15 May 2001
29 m awayRef 2001930001639
Serious
Toyota MR2 crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 2 November 2025
47 m awayRef 2025991663235
Serious
Tesla Model Y crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 11 November 2025
82 m awayRef 2025991666983
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 14 January 2001
98 m awayRef 2001930000213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 2013930001150 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.