Unclassified road crash in Fife KY8 on 29 May 2007 at 14:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 14:10 on Tuesday 29 May 2007. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2007
- Tuesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.17527, longitude -3.03887, in the KY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife, KY8 1DS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007940701258
- 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
- Other 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
- Raining, 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 21 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980948002004
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A955 in Fife, 14 March 2017
21 m awayRef 2017941700183
Slight
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 27 May 1979
22 m awayRef 1979947902191
Serious
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 11 February 1998
30 m awayRef 1998949800458
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A955 in Fife, 10 February 1994
32 m awayRef 1994949400460
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B931 in Fife, 22 September 1981
32 m awayRef 1981948103911
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2007940701258 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.