A907 crash in Fife on 23 December 1996 at 07:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on the A907 in Fife at 07:30 on Monday 23 December 1996. The 26-year-old female driver of the Renault 5 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1996
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07822, longitude -3.42331, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996949603886
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 907
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 912
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1998.
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A907 in Fife, 17 August 1998
At the same spotRef 1998949802246
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A907 in Fife, 7 May 1998
At the same spotRef 1998949801326
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A907 in Fife, 23 October 1998
10 m awayRef 1998949802925
Slight
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 24 November 1993
10 m awayRef 199394TD0340C
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A907 in Fife, 19 May 2004
10 m awayRef 2004940401743
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the A907 in Fife, 25 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199394DU1062C
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 5)
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 1996949603886 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.