A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 13 September 2016 at 07:55 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera crashed on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 07:55 on Tuesday 13 September 2016. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2016
- Tuesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38134, longitude -3.40907, in the PH2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carse of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, PH2 7JU 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
- 2016930000541
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Tayside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 85
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2007.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A90 in Perth and Kinross, 6 August 2007
21 m awayRef 2007930003285
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 8 August 2010
28 m awayRef 2010930002364
Slight
Peugeot Horizon crash on the A90 in Perth and Kinross, 2 December 2016
50 m awayRef 2016930000629
Serious
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 4 February 2007
58 m awayRef 2007930001341
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 21 April 2012
70 m awayRef 2012930001241
Slight
Nissan Pixo crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 27 May 2016
90 m awayRef 2016930000314
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016930000541 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 2016.