C road crash in Fife KY11 on 21 April 1997 at 08:15 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Volvo 460 were involved in a crash on a C road in Fife at 08:15 on Monday 21 April 1997. The 31-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 1997
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Volvo 460
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.03258, longitude -3.39082, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverkeithing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997949701249
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 460
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 1997949701249 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.