A824 crash in Perth and Kinross on 2 May 2018 at 09:25 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross at 09:25 on Wednesday 2 May 2018. The 73-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 37-year-old female driver of the Honda CRV were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2018
- Wednesday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.29672, longitude -3.70526, in the PH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Auchterarder.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018930000144
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 15 March 2017
8 m awayRef 2017930000099
Slight
Toyota crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 15 November 2021
30 m awayRef 2021991112926
Slight
Car crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 10 November 2017
33 m awayRef 2017930000473
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 25 October 1995
36 m awayRef 199593955152W
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 21 November 1994
36 m awayRef 199493945903W
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A824 in Perth and Kinross, 4 December 2006
58 m awayRef 2006930000165
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda CRV)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018930000144 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 2018.