Unclassified road crash in Fife KY8 on 10 July 2000 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:50 on Monday 10 July 2000. The 6-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2000
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18992, longitude -3.03911, in the KY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Methil.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000940002534
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1993.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 3 September 1993
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Serious
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Slight
Renault 9 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 21 April 1995
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Slight
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111 m awayRef 2014941401423
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 28 December 2000
117 m awayRef 2000940004789
Serious
Optare crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 September 2012
128 m awayRef 2012941201508
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 6, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2000940002534 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.