A921 crash in Fife on 26 February 1997 at 14:55 involving a Toyota Tercel
A Toyota Tercel and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A921 in Fife at 14:55 on Wednesday 26 February 1997. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 1997
- Wednesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Tercel and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05368, longitude -3.30181, in the KY3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997949700595
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 921
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1994.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A921 in Fife, 9 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994949403001
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A921 in Fife, 29 June 2012
14 m awayRef 2012941201103
Slight
Car crash on the A921 in Fife, 28 August 1987
20 m awayRef 1987948703446
Slight
Car crash on the A921 in Fife, 27 February 1999
22 m awayRef 1999949900797
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A92 in Fife, 1 November 1981
22 m awayRef 1981948104556
Serious
Car crash on the A921 in Fife, 3 November 2015
25 m awayRef 2015941500855
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Tercel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,452 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1997949700595 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 1997.