Serious A907 crash in Fife on 9 February 2006 at 10:40 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A907 in Fife at 10:40 on Thursday 9 February 2006. The 39-year-old male driver of the BMW X5 and the 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van were seriously injured and a 32-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2006
- Thursday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.06392, longitude -3.57587, in the KY12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006940600336
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 907
- 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
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, 102 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2007.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 31 October 2007
102 m awayRef 2007940702482
Slight
Car crash on the A985 in Fife, 8 August 1981
112 m awayRef 1981948103229
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A985 in Fife, 17 December 1994
151 m awayRef 1994949403506
Fatal
Car crash on the A985 in Fife, 30 October 1981
192 m awayRef 1981948104477
Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the A985 in Fife, 19 December 2004
243 m awayRef 2004940404521
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A985 in Fife, 11 July 1999
324 m awayRef 1999949901965
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2006940600336 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 2006.