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B981 crash in Fife on 17 August 2004 at 23:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B981 in Fife at 23:00 on Tuesday 17 August 2004. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Aug 2004
Tuesday, 23:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.02856, longitude -3.40096, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Inverkeithing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay, Fife, KY11 1LQ area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Fife

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2004940402885
Council area
Fife
Police force
Fife
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
981
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
Dark, street lights lit
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
28%
Estimated chance it was slight
72%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 2004940402885 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.