A822 crash in Perth and Kinross on 15 October 2022 at 19:40 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia crashed on the A822 in Perth and Kinross at 19:40 on Saturday 15 October 2022. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2022
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.31447, longitude -3.82442, in the PH5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022991230779
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 822
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2013.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 25 August 2013
33 m awayRef 2013930001054
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 16 October 2005
39 m awayRef 2005930003909
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 11 October 2015
47 m awayRef 2015930000512
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 5 May 2003
48 m awayRef 2003930002295
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 18 May 1980
60 m awayRef 19809380W0664
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A822 in Perth and Kinross, 25 December 2025
61 m awayRef 2025991687983
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022991230779 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 2022.