Serious A955 crash in Fife on 7 April 2002 at 09:00 involving a Honda Civic
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Apr 2002
- Sunday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.15509, longitude -3.07664, in the KY1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002940201399
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 955
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 28 January 1990
40 m awayRef 1990949000410
Serious
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 5 April 1982
45 m awayRef 1982948201396
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A955 in Fife, 3 August 2004
89 m awayRef 2004940402688
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A955 in Fife, 8 March 2008
100 m awayRef 2008940800607
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A955 in Fife, 15 January 2008
106 m awayRef 2008940800185
Serious
Volvo crash on the A955 in Fife, 20 March 2000
108 m awayRef 2000940002709
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2002940201399 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 2002.