Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY7 on 13 April 1998 at 14:08 involving a John Deere
A John Deere crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 14:08 on Monday 13 April 1998. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Apr 1998
- Monday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- John Deere
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18592, longitude -3.14049, in the KY7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glenrothes.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998949801042
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 9130
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: John Deere
Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (John Deere)
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 1998949801042 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 1998.