Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 28 July 1998 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 20:15 on Tuesday 28 July 1998. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1998
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07306, longitude -3.37107, in the KY11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998949802001
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 206 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2008.
Slight
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B981 in Fife, 29 August 1991
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B981 in Fife, 11 December 2009
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Serious
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Serious
Nissan crash on the B981 in Fife, 4 August 2020
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1998949802001 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.