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Serious B940 crash in Fife on 25 April 1998 at 17:15 involving a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle crashed on the B940 in Fife at 17:15 on Saturday 25 April 1998. The 24-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Apr 1998
Saturday, 17:15
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ZX400
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.26255, longitude -2.78438, in the KY10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Fife

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998949801129
Council area
Fife
Police force
Fife

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
940
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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 serious injury crash on 17 May 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX400

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    398 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX400)

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 1998949801129 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.