C road crash in Fife KY15 on 31 December 2000 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Calibra
A Vauxhall Calibra crashed on a C road in Fife at 18:00 on Sunday 31 December 2000. The 56-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Calibra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.24293, longitude -3.1309, in the KY15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000940100026
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 2009.
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Serious
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Fatal
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Calibra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Calibra)
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 2000940100026 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.