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Serious unclassified road crash in Fife DD6 on 9 October 1982 at 20:15 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 20:15 on Saturday 9 October 1982. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Oct 1982
Saturday, 20:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44296, longitude -2.86449, in the DD6 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982948203925
Council area
Fife
Police force
Fife

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
20 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 311 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1982948203925 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 1982.