M90 crash in Perth and Kinross on 28 July 2018 at 20:34 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the M90 in Perth and Kinross at 20:34 on Saturday 28 July 2018. The 26-year-old male driver and a 25-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 20:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.31742, longitude -3.3726, in the PH2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018930000253
- 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
- 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2016.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 21 August 2016
21 m awayRef 2016930000512
Slight
Car crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 11 February 1983
38 m awayRef 19839383W0202
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 1 September 1997
62 m awayRef 199793974126W
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 7 August 2009
72 m awayRef 2009930002751
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 14 March 2005
104 m awayRef 2005930001294
Fatal
Renault 19 crash on the M90 in Perth and Kinross, 7 August 1994
111 m awayRef 199493943929W
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018930000253 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.