Serious A907 crash in Fife on 2 April 2006 at 01:00 involving a Volvo 440
A Volvo 440 and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on the A907 in Fife at 01:00 on Sunday 2 April 2006. The 30-year-old male driver of the Volvo 440 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Apr 2006
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo 440 and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0903, longitude -3.59286, in the KY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006940600810
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 7 February 1987
10 m awayRef 1987948700444
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A907 in Fife, 19 February 2023
38 m awayRef 2023991278100
Slight
Van crash on the A907 in Fife, 29 January 1981
85 m awayRef 1981948100357
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the A907 in Fife, 27 July 1994
85 m awayRef 1994949401974
Serious
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 18 February 1984
110 m awayRef 1984948400789
Slight
ERF crash on the A907 in Fife, 8 November 2000
199 m awayRef 2000940004033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 440)
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 2006940600810 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.