Serious A91 crash in Fife on 30 December 1982 at 23:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A91 in Fife at 23:05 on Thursday 30 December 1982. A 19-year-old male passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and the 19-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
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1982
- Thursday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.34885, longitude -2.83161, in the KY16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982948205408
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 91
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 2002.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A91 in Fife, 16 March 2002
64 m awayRef 2002940201091
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A91 in Fife, 26 April 1997
140 m awayRef 1997949701191
Fatal
Audi A4 crash on the A91 in Fife, 19 August 1997
210 m awayRef 1997949702358
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A91 in Fife, 9 November 2003
237 m awayRef 2003940303925
Fatal
Ford Mondeo crash on the A91 in Fife, 3 September 1999
242 m awayRef 1999949902892
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A91 in Fife, 29 August 2005
246 m awayRef 2005940501914
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1982948205408 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.