A824 crash in Perth and Kinross on 7 October 2015 at 07:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A824 in Perth and Kinross at 07:35 on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.31159, longitude -3.67301, in the PH3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015930000500
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 824
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1997.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 28 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199793975042W
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 18 December 2003
63 m awayRef 2003930000264
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 4 April 2014
66 m awayRef 2014930000189
Slight
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 8 July 1985
100 m awayRef 19859385W1003
Serious
Car crash on the A9 in Perth and Kinross, 15 September 1980
100 m awayRef 19809380W1411
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 17 October 2009
100 m awayRef 2009930003399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2015930000500 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.