A915 crash in Fife on 23 January 1994 at 15:35 involving a Bedford lorry
A Bedford lorry and a MAN/VW lorry were involved in a crash on the A915 in Fife at 15:35 on Sunday 23 January 1994. The 48-year-old male driver of the Bedford lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 1994
- Sunday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bedford and MAN/VW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.17011, longitude -3.08027, in the KY1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994949400246
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 915
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2000.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A915 in Fife, 15 August 2000
10 m awayRef 2000940002913
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A915 in Fife, 19 June 1999
14 m awayRef 1999949901531
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A915 in Fife, 11 November 2018
40 m awayRef 2018941800612
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A915 in Fife, 13 February 2024
43 m awayRef 2024991409358
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A915 in Fife, 8 April 1994
45 m awayRef 1994949401067
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A915 in Fife, 7 November 1997
57 m awayRef 1997949703453
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: MAN/VW
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,680 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Bedford)
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 1994949400246 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 1994.