Unclassified road crash in Fife KY12 on 17 August 1979 at 18:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 18:05 on Friday 17 August 1979. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 1979
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0828, longitude -3.56441, in the KY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979947903403
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1997.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 23 March 1997
22 m awayRef 1997949700908
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 4 May 1985
45 m awayRef 1985948501794
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 28 August 2003
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 26 June 1992
61 m awayRef 199294OA0067B
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 25 January 1988
114 m awayRef 1988948800436
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 26 September 1979
122 m awayRef 1979947903952
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979947903403 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.