B985 crash in Fife on 14 March 2007 at 11:15 involving a Ford Escort
Two cars and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B985 in Fife at 11:15 on Wednesday 14 March 2007. The 49-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and the 22-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2007
- Wednesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07379, longitude -3.37432, in the KY11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007940700608
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 985
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2008.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B981 in Fife, 13 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008940800661
Slight
Car crash on the B981 in Fife, 24 June 1985
187 m awayRef 1985948502393
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 28 July 1998
215 m awayRef 1998949802001
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the B981 in Fife, 11 November 2023
218 m awayRef 2023991373347
Slight
Car crash on the B981 in Fife, 4 March 1989
272 m awayRef 1989948900972
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B981 in Fife, 11 December 2009
355 m awayRef 2009940902824
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2007940700608 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 2007.