C road crash in Fife DD6 on 3 July 1989 at 16:00 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on a C road in Fife at 16:00 on Monday 3 July 1989. The 40-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 1989
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.4047, longitude -3.03911, in the DD6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989948902883
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 128 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1991.
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Fife, 8 April 1991
128 m awayRef 199194NT0056A
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Fife, 5 July 1991
292 m awayRef 199194NT0100A
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Fife, 5 July 1992
465 m awayRef 199294NT0091B
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on a C road in Fife, 11 July 2002
486 m awayRef 2002940202609
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 20 February 1982
502 m awayRef 1982948200762
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 19 May 1979
532 m awayRef 1979947901997
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1989948902883 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.