A823 crash in Perth and Kinross on 2 April 2015 at 00:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A823 in Perth and Kinross at 00:40 on Thursday 2 April 2015. The 29-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
- 2 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.3142, longitude -3.81073, in the PH5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000239
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 823
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a fatal crash on 14 June 2024.
Fatal
Suzuki Alto crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 14 June 2024
1 m awayRef 2024991455742
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 26 November 2004
10 m awayRef 2004930005163
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 11 May 1993
13 m awayRef 199393932428W
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 12 June 2007
38 m awayRef 2007930002576
Slight
Car crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 25 March 1981
95 m awayRef 19819381W0429
Serious
Car crash on the A823 in Perth and Kinross, 7 January 1988
95 m awayRef 19889388W0041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015930000239 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 2015.