Serious unclassified road crash in Fife FK10 on 21 March 2004 at 21:20 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 21:20 on Sunday 21 March 2004. A 9-year-old male passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2004
- Sunday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08175, longitude -3.73361, in the FK10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004940401042
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 91 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1995.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 13 July 1995
91 m awayRef 199596EA02426
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Clackmannanshire, 30 June 1997
188 m awayRef 199796E238072
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 9 June 1995
238 m awayRef 1995949501633
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 11 August 1995
257 m awayRef 199596EA02135
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Fife, 24 January 2006
257 m awayRef 2006940600188
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 October 1980
292 m awayRef 1980948004196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2004940401042 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.