Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY2 on 25 April 1989 at 17:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:50 on Tuesday 25 April 1989. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Apr 1989
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.12639, longitude -3.18361, in the KY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkcaldy.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989948901807
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 45, 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 1989948901807 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 1989.