A85 crash in Perth and Kinross on 19 April 2019 at 21:30 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross at 21:30 on Friday 19 April 2019. The 57-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2019
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A5 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.38017, longitude -3.8495, in the PH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crieff.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019930000117
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 5 August 1989
17 m awayRef 19899389W1308
Serious
Suzuki GSX 650 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 16 May 2014
19 m awayRef 2014930000234
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 13 July 2025
106 m awayRef 2025991615612
Slight
Car crash on the A85 in Perth and Kinross, 20 December 1988
158 m awayRef 19889388W2106
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 27 September 1979
188 m awayRef 19799379W1720
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 20 January 1997
188 m awayRef 199793970345W
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2019930000117 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 2019.