Fatal A92 crash in Fife on 20 February 1996 at 16:15 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A92 in Fife at 16:15 on Tuesday 20 February 1996. A female passenger aged under 1 in the Peugeot 309 was killed and the 27-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 309 and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 309 were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 20 Feb 1996
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 killed, 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09764, longitude -3.3496, in the KY4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996949600476
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 92
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A92 in Fife, 25 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002940204474
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A92 in Fife, 3 March 2011
32 m awayRef 2011941100474
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A92 in Fife, 19 May 2014
33 m awayRef 2014941400843
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A92 in Fife, 8 December 2021
59 m awayRef 2021991118705
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A92 in Fife, 8 July 2020
83 m awayRef 2020990963112
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A92 in Fife, 23 October 2016
201 m awayRef 2016941600844
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalFemale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1996949600476 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 1996.