B996 crash in Perth and Kinross on 2 February 2024 at 18:55 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift hit a pedestrian on the B996 in Perth and Kinross at 18:55 on Friday 2 February 2024. A 61-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2024
- Friday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.20412, longitude -3.42104, in the KY13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kinross. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kinross-shire, Perth and Kinross, KY13 8TH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991439215
- Council area
- Perth and Kinross
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 996
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2008.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B996 in Perth and Kinross, 29 April 2008
9 m awayRef 2008930002053
Slight
Ford Ka+ crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 6 May 2021
16 m awayRef 2021991042714
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 12 November 2007
30 m awayRef 2007930000281
Serious
Car crash on the B996 in Perth and Kinross, 7 July 2005
31 m awayRef 2005930002617
Fatal
Scania crash on the B996 in Perth and Kinross, 16 December 2011
37 m awayRef 2011930000293
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Perth and Kinross, 10 October 1995
41 m awayRef 199593954958W
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024991439215 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 2024.