Unclassified road crash in Fife KY12 on 13 April 1979 at 17:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:00 on Friday 13 April 1979. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 1979
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07504, longitude -3.46464, in the KY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979947901593
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A976 in Fife, 28 July 1979
14 m awayRef 1979947903011
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 25 September 1991
14 m awayRef 199194DU0764A
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A976 in Fife, 24 August 1984
20 m awayRef 1984948403415
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 29 January 1982
20 m awayRef 1982948200387
Slight
Kia Venga crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 27 August 2017
21 m awayRef 2017941700524
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A976 in Fife, 30 November 1994
22 m awayRef 1994949403195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979947901593 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fife road accident statistics for 1979.