C road crash in Fife KY15 on 28 September 1989 at 11:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Fife at 11:30 on Thursday 28 September 1989. The 18-year-old male rider was 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
- 28 Sep 1989
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.29683, longitude -2.88332, in the KY15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989948904401
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 153 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Fife, 10 May 1981
153 m awayRef 1981948101969
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Fife, 29 May 2009
306 m awayRef 2009940901123
Fatal
Honda crash on a C road in Fife, 15 March 1999
316 m awayRef 1999949901369
Slight
Triumph Spitfire crash on a C road in Fife, 4 June 1992
328 m awayRef 199294SA0161B
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 17 March 2001
791 m awayRef 2001940101019
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 31 August 2000
1.1 km awayRef 2000940003169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1989948904401 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.