A915 crash in Fife on 13 October 1987 at 15:05 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A915 in Fife at 15:05 on Tuesday 13 October 1987. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 1, a 28-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 26-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1987
- Tuesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.16215, longitude -3.0968, in the KY1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987948704119
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 915
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A915 in Fife, 1 November 2015
13 m awayRef 2015941500852
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A915 in Fife, 16 October 2023
14 m awayRef 2023991363554
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A915 in Fife, 10 May 2013
40 m awayRef 2013941300794
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 17 September 1980
58 m awayRef 1980948003761
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A915 in Fife, 26 April 1996
64 m awayRef 1996949601588
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A915 in Fife, 21 March 1993
71 m awayRef 199394LM0131C
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, 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 1987948704119 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 1987.