Serious unclassified road crash in Fife DD6 on 5 July 2007 at 16:30 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 16:30 on Thursday 5 July 2007. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.44903, longitude -2.87826, in the DD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tayport.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007940701548
- 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
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2008.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B946 in Fife, 9 August 2008
72 m awayRef 2008940801774
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 30 January 1981
110 m awayRef 1981948100385
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 9 May 1981
120 m awayRef 1981948101868
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 12 November 1984
130 m awayRef 1984948404566
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 11 July 1987
130 m awayRef 1987948702661
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 31 October 1984
130 m awayRef 1984948404355
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- 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
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2007940701548 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.