A915 crash in Fife on 8 April 1996 at 15:55 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a Nissan Micra and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A915 in Fife at 15:55 on Monday 8 April 1996. A 7-year-old female passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 1996
- Monday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14944, longitude -3.12106, in the KY1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996949600960
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2016.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A915 in Fife, 10 October 2016
9 m awayRef 2016941600805
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A915 in Fife, 8 February 2020
13 m awayRef 2020990930747
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 24 March 1989
14 m awayRef 1989948901341
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A915 in Fife, 20 November 2016
18 m awayRef 2016941600936
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A915 in Fife, 5 December 2019
19 m awayRef 2019940910763
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 27 March 1981
22 m awayRef 1981948101268
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 1996949600960 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.