Unclassified road crash in Fife KY5 on 1 January 2004 at 02:30 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 02:30 on Thursday 1 January 2004. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14186, longitude -3.26023, in the KY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardenden.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004940400003
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2002.
Slight
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Fife, 6 December 1994
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Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Fife, 23 August 1980
95 m awayRef 1980948003352
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Fife, 5 December 1992
102 m awayRef 199294CD0124B
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 27 November 1999
117 m awayRef 1999949903995
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2004940400003 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 2004.