Unclassified road crash in Fife KY16 on 6 October 2006 at 17:30 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:30 on Friday 6 October 2006. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2006
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.34234, longitude -2.80462, in the KY16 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Andrews. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006940602282
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2005.
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Fatal
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,460 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2006940602282 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.