Serious A985 crash in Fife on 8 July 2000 at 11:30 involving a Peugeot 309
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04547, longitude -3.47623, in the KY11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000940002484
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 985
- 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, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 July 2005.
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A985 in Fife, 18 July 2005
14 m awayRef 2005940501579
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A985 in Fife, 17 December 2003
28 m awayRef 2003940304522
Slight
Honda S2000 crash on the A985 in Fife, 2 March 2004
28 m awayRef 2004940400796
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A985 in Fife, 12 June 2006
42 m awayRef 2006940601351
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A985 in Fife, 20 December 2003
78 m awayRef 2003940304556
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A985 in Fife, 16 September 2025
80 m awayRef 2025991642558
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 2000940002484 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 2000.