B946 crash in Fife on 17 December 1992 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B946 in Fife at 16:00 on Thursday 17 December 1992. The 39-year-old female rider of the motorcycle and a 67-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1992
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44948, longitude -2.92044, in the DD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199294NT0185B
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 946
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 122 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2011.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B946 in Fife, 18 January 2011
122 m awayRef 2011941100138
Slight
Car crash on the B945 in Fife, 9 July 1984
130 m awayRef 1984948402744
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B946 in Fife, 10 August 1979
150 m awayRef 1979947903174
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B946 in Fife, 12 December 1994
150 m awayRef 1994949403392
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B946 in Fife, 31 July 2017
162 m awayRef 2017941700472
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B946 in Fife, 12 January 2003
181 m awayRef 2003940300168
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 39, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 2 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199294NT0185B 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 1992.