B954 crash in Perth and Kinross on 2 November 2022 at 01:38 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B954 in Perth and Kinross at 01:38 on Wednesday 2 November 2022. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2022
- Wednesday, 01:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.59252, longitude -3.16525, in the PH12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022991237113
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 954
- 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
- Fine, 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, 241 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 19 December 1985
241 m awayRef 19859385W2074
Serious
Car crash on the A927 in Perth and Kinross, 17 May 1984
261 m awayRef 19849384W0685
Slight
Car crash on the A94 in Perth and Kinross, 28 September 1984
261 m awayRef 19849384W1412
Slight
Car crash on the A94 in Perth and Kinross, 10 July 1986
261 m awayRef 19869386W1058
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B954 in Perth and Kinross, 11 February 2001
283 m awayRef 2001930000661
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A94 in Perth and Kinross, 3 June 2018
285 m awayRef 2018930000288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022991237113 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.