Serious C road crash in Fife KY5 on 8 February 1991 at 15:35 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on a C road in Fife at 15:35 on Friday 8 February 1991. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Feb 1991
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.1393, longitude -3.25949, in the KY5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199194CD0025A
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 September 2025.
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Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Fife, 10 July 1979
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 6 April 1987
124 m awayRef 1987948701454
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Fife, 18 October 1981
130 m awayRef 1981948104311
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 7 November 1986
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199194CD0025A 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 1991.